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Or use paper ballots. Additionally, if you really wanted to protect voting and still use computers, use an open ballot and also allow voters to audit their own
by mipmap04 9y ago
Or use paper ballots.
Additionally, if you really wanted to protect voting and still use computers, use an open ballot and also allow voters to audit their own vote.
- t_fatus 9y agoHow do you ensure people able to hack your voting system won't be able to change what is displayed in the open ballot?
- deelowe 9y agoYou allow people to observe the counting of votes and do exit polls (which is currently the case).
- zanny 9y agoYou get a transaction id for your vote when you vote, and you can verify it against the open ballot. If they don't match, either the machine or the ballot was hacked. The public ballot is much easier to secure, since you can just use a trustless ledger. Spinning up a ton of processing power to protect the voting process day-of elections isn't infeasible.