From: bwr607@hotmail.com 
  
 Dave Sill  wrote in 
 news:wx01xh9lwtu.fsf@sws5.ornl.gov: 
  
 >>>   2) Registered via notarized letter 
 >>>   3) Has voted before 
 >>>   4) Has posted before 
 >> 
 >> You forgot criteria number 5: 
 >> 
 >> 5) Hasn't changed email address since doing any of those things. 
 > 
 > There's always #2 for someone who can't bear to miss a vote. 
  
 Those could be forged easily. A dishonest person could order a bogus notary 
 stamp via the web, and use it to "notarize" dozens of identities, if they 
 are determined enough. This would cause too much work for the 
 votetaker..verifying if the letters are real. Being an international 
 system, how would one practically verify if someone is a registered notary 
 public in a country like the Central African Republic, or Chad? 
  
 -- 
 Bill 
  
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