[LINK] Blind voter demands secret vote

[Saliya Wimalaratne]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:04:01PM -0700, David Goldstein wrote:
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> Many people who are blind and vision impaired have advocated for years for a way to vote with privacy. Electronic voting gives them this ability. And for the problems that exist, instead of saying "no, can't have this... [for whatever reason you want to insert here]", how about look at it from a human rights aspect and then think, "how can we make this safe and secure". Something quite a few here seem unable to think of.

The problems and benefits with e-voting in the "traditional" sense have 
already been raised (to my mind, ad nauseum).  I think the concerns
related to tampering are sufficient justification to say 'not like that 
here, thanks'. 

Electronic-ise the voter input; keep the paper trail for the tallies.
The output that gets counted needs to be verifiable by the voter.

I don't believe that this need be a 'slippery slope' situation.

Regards,

Saliya