RE: Things to do - Requirement Document. Security.

[Michael Zolotarev <michael.zolotarev@baltimore.com>]

Thom,

My understanding is that a Ballot is what a voter receives from a voting
system prior to expressing the opinion (like by posting the ballots to all
the voters in the electorate), and a Vote is what a voter submits back to
the voting system, having a specific opinion of the voter expressed.

In a simple case, a "ballot" may be a form with a "voter name" and a lot of
empty tick-boxes in it. And the "vote" would be the same form filled with
the name and having one or more tick-boxes marked. 

A ballot may be used by the election system to render the information for
the voter.

In general, a ballot and a vote may have nothing, or very little, in common.
A ballot may communicate the general election info, and the candidates
backgroud info, and a lot. And the vote may be just a single number,
generated and sent back from a voting terminal.

Michael



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thom Wysong [mailto:wysong@technodemocracy.org]
> Sent: Saturday, 23 June 2001 15:25
> To: election-services@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: Things to do - Requirement Document. Security.
> 
> 
> 
> Michael,
> 
> Great job!  One question though.  You describe both a "vote 
> token" and a 
> "ballot token".  Perhaps I missed it, but the difference 
> between how you 
> define these two terms is unclear.  Could you compare and 
> contrast your use 
> of the two terms to clarify them a bit?  Thanks.
> 
> -Thom
> 
> 
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