On: New Jersey To Allow Voting By Email

[lifeisstillgood]

If my vote is encrypted and put in an envelope that has my name on it, then it very very much matters.

If you cam find two envelopes with my name, you can find out what my vote is ( I mean somewhere there is a decryption key)

Physical voting strips most links out from who voted and what they voted (you prove who you are at the desk then walk in and vote on a piece of paper in no way related to your name.

That is either impossible electronically or relies on unverifiable trust in the code. I know if someone looks over my shoulder. I cannot look at the code running - even if it is open source I cannot see what is really running.

[ramchip → lifeisstillgood]

Not necessarily, it's possible to find two envelopes with e.g. a hash of your name, without knowing your name.

[barrkel → ramchip]

So you hash everyones' name, then you have a reverse mapping.

[lifeisstillgood → barrkel]

Plus once you have my envelope you have my vote - we don't trust you or the code btw