Preliminary Voting -- Prevoting
Ronald L. Rivest · DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 2005
We introduce the notion of preliminary voting, or pre-voting, wherein a voter deposits—perhaps over the Internet—a preliminary vote or pre-vote with election authorities at some time before the close of elections. Prevotes are not official votes, and need not be kept private; indeed, elec-tion officials might, as a matter of announced policy, publish the list of received prevotes together with the names of the voters submitting such prevotes. With prevoting, a voter must visit a polling site to make any final adjustments to his prevote in private, and to actually cast her (per-haps modified) prevote. 1