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I see what you're saying, but would it help if we just make the whole "build" of the election scaffolding and process deterministic? Looking at the architecture
by patcon 10y ago
I see what you're saying, but would it help if we just make the whole "build" of the election scaffolding and process deterministic? Looking at the architecture, it seems that there's a whole "generation" phase where the election is initialized from certain data. I wonder if this could happen in a Gitian-like [1] environment, that any technical citizen could re-run and verify against some sort of validity hash stored in public [ledger].
[1]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/gitian-building.md https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/gitian-bu...
- yk 10y agoThe problem is, that the average citizen does not understand what 'deterministic build' means. One aspect of an election is as a ritual to legitimize the government, and this legitimization currently rests on the argument that in principle every voter could verify the election process. (It is a ritual because no average voter does something like that.) So technology will not help, unless you can change the perception of the function of elections.