From: bwr607@hotmail.com 
  
 kaih=9GjyoZ1mw-B@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) wrote in 
 news:9GjyoZ1mw-B@khms.westfalen.de: 
  
 >> So allow anyone meeting any of the following criteria to vote: 
 >> 
 >>   1) Registered via e-mail at least six months ago 
 >>   2) Registered via notarized letter 
 >>   3) Has voted before 
 >>   4) Has posted before 
 > 
 > I've seen similar proposals before, and didn't like them back then, 
 > either. 
 > 
 > What I can see - and which would not really be all that relevant to 
 > ballot  stuffing - would be adding a handshake procedure to voting. 
 > That *does*  make more work for the UVV, unfortunately - though it 
 > ought to be  automatable. 
 > 
 > That is, make votes work as follows: 
 > 
 > 1, Find a CFV somewhere. 
 > 2. Send mail to the votetaker address in that document. 
 > 3. Get back mail from the votetaker with a fresh, unfilled ballot, 
 > with  some random-looking token inside. 
 > 4. Fill in, and send back. 
 > 
 > The token would be to make sure every ballot is only used by the 
 > person  requesting it; the extra steps are to make sure the email 
 > address is  actually valid at that time. 
 > 
 > The next step would then be to make sure that the addresses actually 
 > designate different people; I do not think there is a reasonable way 
 > to do  that. 
  
 None of that would have prevented either the Stromboli or Full Metal Jacket 
 cases. 
  
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