Preliminary Voting -- Prevoting
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Author(s)
Rivest, Ronald L.
Date Issued
August 6, 2005
Publisher
Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project
Series/Report no.
VTP Working Paper Series;35
Abstract
We introduce the notion of preliminary voting, or pre-voting, wherein a voter deposits—perhaps over the Internet—a preliminary vote or prevote with election authorities at some time before the close of elections. Prevotes are not official votes, and need not be kept private; indeed, election officials might, as a matter of announced policy, publish the list of received prevotes together with the names of the voters submitting such prevotes. With prevoting, a voter must visit a polling site to make any final adjustments to his prevote in private, and to actually cast her (perhaps modified) prevote.
Subjects
Pre-voting
Privacy
Voting system
Internet voting
Verification
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