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I'm pretty sure most voter fraud/electronic count type issues can be solved with git (and/or blockchain). Anyone working on that?

VLM 10y ago
Its hard to implement those without timestamps and anonymity is impossible with timestamps plus ubiquitous cameras and modern image analysis software, not to mention "the internet of things powned by foreign governments and corporations". I'm not implying anything, but an anonymous vote for Trump was registered into the blockchain at 9:55:01 at XYZ elementary school, and at 9:55:23 a hacked gas station security camera across the street shows a dude walking out the door and into a car license plate WTF-123 that seems to be registered at the same address as drivers license number 1234-XYZ which happens to be VLM and his rather studly DL demographic data (height weight race gender) seems to match the dude in the video... Meanwhile VLMs phone, which is powned by the NSA, KGB, and god knows who else, records VLM's GPS coordinates as in the voting booth at 9:55:01 and shows him driving the car back to the coordinates of his house. And of course VLM's kids went to that elementary school when they were little. So it could just all be a coincidence, but I think I might know who VLM voted for ...
- aaronhoffman 10y ago
  Very true, it would not make a perfectly anonymous voting system, but I think it could prevent some fraud. You could take steps to separate the name from the vote of course. e.g. After the person confirms their identity somehow, give them a random number that only they see/have access to, associate the vote with that number. The "repos" could be made public and you could confirm your vote afterwards. No vote could be "changed" if it was in a chain of hashes... Your point about timestamp is true. And although I personally think we could stand to be more open about how we vote (and also more accepting of others) I agree anonymity is important. Perhaps a system like this would be efficient enough to greatly reduce the voting time window. Make it harder to determine who voted by timestamp due to "noise". (or perhaps, can't vote unless there are 5 people present... not a perfect solution, just throwing some ideas at the wall.)

VLM 10y ago

Its hard to implement those without timestamps and anonymity is impossible with timestamps plus ubiquitous cameras and modern image analysis software, not to mention "the internet of things powned by foreign governments and corporations". I'm not implying anything, but an anonymous vote for Trump was registered into the blockchain at 9:55:01 at XYZ elementary school, and at 9:55:23 a hacked gas station security camera across the street shows a dude walking out the door and into a car license plate WTF-123 that seems to be registered at the same address as drivers license number 1234-XYZ which happens to be VLM and his rather studly DL demographic data (height weight race gender) seems to match the dude in the video... Meanwhile VLMs phone, which is powned by the NSA, KGB, and god knows who else, records VLM's GPS coordinates as in the voting booth at 9:55:01 and shows him driving the car back to the coordinates of his house. And of course VLM's kids went to that elementary school when they were little. So it could just all be a coincidence, but I think I might know who VLM voted for ...

aaronhoffman 10y ago
Very true, it would not make a perfectly anonymous voting system, but I think it could prevent some fraud. You could take steps to separate the name from the vote of course. e.g. After the person confirms their identity somehow, give them a random number that only they see/have access to, associate the vote with that number. The "repos" could be made public and you could confirm your vote afterwards. No vote could be "changed" if it was in a chain of hashes... Your point about timestamp is true. And although I personally think we could stand to be more open about how we vote (and also more accepting of others) I agree anonymity is important. Perhaps a system like this would be efficient enough to greatly reduce the voting time window. Make it harder to determine who voted by timestamp due to "noise". (or perhaps, can't vote unless there are 5 people present... not a perfect solution, just throwing some ideas at the wall.)