Feb 21, 2022 12:43
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German term

Quittungsfreiheit

German to English Social Sciences Government / Politics
Quittungsfreiheit: Der Wähler darf nach der Wahl nicht nachweisen können, wofür er seine Stimme abgegeben hat. Das Wahlgeheimnis bleibt erhalten, auch nachdem man die Korrektheit seiner Wahl bestätigt wurde.
Change log

Feb 21, 2022 13:31: Steffen Walter changed "Field (write-in)" from "Quittungsfreiheit" to "(none)"

Discussion

TonyTK Feb 23, 2022:
"Dear Customer, ... ... Here's the translation. I didn't like one of the terms I researched, so I replaced it with the words "fluffy niceness" (P.S. I've also attached a photo of a kitten.)"
Marketing-Lang. (asker) Feb 23, 2022:
Experts not of linguistics but ... ... include a Professor of Cybersecurity at the University of Surrey and a contributor to the IEEE, the standards organisation. The publishers of the paper I quoted are outstanding experts in their field. Now, leading academics tend to set the tone and the terminology, and eVoting is still new and developing. So they get my vote any time.
AllegroTrans Feb 23, 2022:
Used by the experts? Clearly abusers of the English language, whoever they are. "Receipt freeness" is simply mumbo-jumbo
Lancashireman Feb 23, 2022:
'Scuse me, Tony I too am an expert.
TonyTK Feb 22, 2022:
I don't like it either, ... ... Andrew, but it's the term used by the experts, as I'm sure your extensive research has shown. Like "Quittungsfreiheit", it's totally misleading - but watcha gonna do?
Lancashireman Feb 22, 2022:
receipt freeness ... is just some non-native's literal translation. It is certainly not English. By recycling this monstrosity, you endorse and perpetuate it.
Marketing-Lang. (asker) Feb 22, 2022:
Agreed - receipt freeness An alternative reference referring to "coercion resistance", an important element of the source text: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-32759-9_...
Bourth Feb 22, 2022:
TonyTK Feb 21, 2022:
@ AllegroTrans Precisely. See pages 383 and 384. The voter gets a printout receipt to say THAT they voted but not HOW they voted.
AllegroTrans Feb 21, 2022:
Here is a credible link Receipt-Free Universally-Verifiable Voting with Everlasting Privacy

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11818175_22
TonyTK Feb 21, 2022:
This is about ... ... not being able to PROVE how you voted. Full stop. If you can prove how you voted, you can sell your vote or someone can blackmail or coerce you into voting a certain way. The term "Quittungsfreiheit" is a poor choice, as is the English term of art "receipt-freeness", but that doesn't mean we can use something different because we think it sounds better.
Marketing-Lang. (asker) Feb 21, 2022:
anti-corruption ... ... as votes cannot be sold

Proposed translations

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receipt-free secret ballot

When in doubt, call the vote a 'ballot'.

The problem with 'ballot-paper or slip anonymity' is that the Round Robin may be taken electronically.

No further elucidation, elaboration or explanation, lest confusion be sown.

Example sentence:

The secret ballot, also known as the Australian ballot is a voting method in which a voter's identity in an election or a referendum is anonymous. This forestalls attempts to influence the voter by intimidation, blackmailing, and potential vote buying.

Receipt-free secret-ballot elections (extended abstract) & Secret-Ballot Receipts: True Voter-Verifiable Elections. IEEE Security and Privacy

Peer comment(s):

agree TonyTK : The term of art appears to be "receipt-freeness" - https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/853.pdf and lots of other kosher hits.
23 mins
Thanks, Tony. Having dealt only with UK and German etc. private and public company or Trade Union voting, balloting and (written) polling, I've learned something about electoral law.
agree Bartira Galati
20 hrs
Muito obrigado, Bartira, merci vielmals and thanks !
agree Cillie Swart : nice solution
1 day 2 hrs
Thanks, Cillie.
agree AllegroTrans : But "receipt-freeness" NO way
1 day 10 hrs
Thanks, Chris. Tony K. has come up with an intriguing web ref. for the purpose.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks Adrian, great references too."
39 mins

No voting slip

sugestão
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14 hrs

no individualized record of voting selections

Unlike the German term, this may be more digestible for a layperson and eliminate the need for a footnote.

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Note added at 1 day 15 hrs (2022-02-23 04:21:25 GMT)
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Voting without paper trail (you can't sell your vote if there's no paper trail to prove how you voted)

Compare with quotes below:

"Five states in the U.S. — Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, New Jersey, and Delaware — run their elections using direct recording electronic machines (DREs), which provide no paper trail of the votes. That means if there’s a contested election or a suspected breach or tampering attempt in those states, there is no way to verify the election result." https://www.axios.com/five-states-without-paper-trail-of-vot...

"Andererseits muss verhindert werden, dass es dem Wähler dadurch
möglich ist, seine Wahlentscheidung Dritten gegenüber zu beweisen. Diese Sicherheitsanforderung wird als Quittungsfreiheit bezeichnet. Das Wahlgeheimnis muss demnach durch das elektronische Wahlsystem erzwungen werden. Um die gegensätzlichen Anforderungen der individuellen Verifizierbarkeit und der Quittungsfreiheit zu vereinbaren, sind in der Regel komplexe kryptographische oder organisatorische Konzepte nötig."
https://download.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de/media/FB20/Dekanat/Publ...
Peer comment(s):

neutral TonyTK : Your deleted suggestion was better, Michael. This is not just too vague, it's wrong. (IMO) // No a thousand times. it's far more complex than that, Michael. Read the definition. Google the term. Look at the links in the discussion box.
4 hrs
Never mind. What the German concoction probably refers to is the "absence or lack of a paper trail"
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