[Foundation-l] Election query

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Anthony wrote:
> On 9/23/06, Alison Wheeler <wikimedia at alisonwheeler.com> wrote:
>> I didn't want to ask this actually while voting was open in case anyone
>> got worried, but not that voting has closed I'd like to ask something.
>>
>> How are our votes actually counted and, more importantly, how can we each
>> be certain that the votes we made are actually the ones which are being
>> counted?
>>
> During the first election I asked this and what I got from the
> discussion was that this can't be done.  The process used for
> encryption generates random padding so that re-encrypting the exact
> same message using the same public key will produce a different result
> every time.  My "receipt" did not indicate any information about this
> random string/padding.
> 

It's part of the OpenPGP protocol.

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