Like a Houdini of electronics, Felten finds such conundrums hard to pass up. In recent months he and colleagues took up a challenge posed by the music recording industry to try to defeat several proposed electronic tricks for protecting the copyrights of digital recordings. Felten's group successfully removed all the watermarks without significantly harming the music quality. It is not surprising that he has been thinking lately about elections and whether an electronic system could avoid problems such as those experienced in the presidential race in Florida, but maintain strict secrecy and security. If it still seems interesting in a few weeks, maybe I'll make a research project out of it.
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