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That would result in scenarios like this: "I'll pay you X amount for a 'Yes' UUID". It's far better to keep the result anonymous. As for the counts, where I v
by denom 9y ago
That would result in scenarios like this: "I'll pay you X amount for a 'Yes' UUID". It's far better to keep the result anonymous.
As for the counts, where I vote my name is recorded in a book and then I cast my ballot. So it should be possible to verify that the book tally and vote tally match.
- novalis78 9y agoI thought that's how democracy currently operates: you vote for me and I give you xyz. Now, combining this with a Blockchain and actually getting paid... hmmm...
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- agarden 9y agoThen I'll go pay someone who voted 'yes' 1/2X for their UUID receipt and everyone is happy.
- improbable22 9y agoThe last time I voted there was a campaign to remind you that taking a selfie with your ballot paper is illegal -- for exactly this reason.
- zanny 9y agoOne way to do it would be to present the user with the number but not give them a physical / digital certificate of the UUID. If they are all public, the conspirator trying to buy votes cannot trust that their client isn't just looking up UUIDs and giving them a different one. You can write your identifier down, but you could also go online and look up any other identifier you want and use that one instead. The public ledger results could be timestamped so you can correlate your vote with the on chain results, but given a large enough election thousands of votes should be coming in every <unit of time the ledger uses> and you could pick any one that voted the way your sponsor wanted to claim to be your own. It is only a problem if results don't come in in real time I think. Trying to photograph the display would be just as much of a problem as taking a picture of your ballot today. The broad point is to convey the UUID in the only untrustable memory store, the human brain.
- dilap 9y agoI guess I'm not so worried about the "I'll pay you X" stuff vs. outright fraud. (And it already happens, anyway -- I had a friend who volunteered at a voting site here in SF for the last prez election, and he was quite surprised by how many elderly people came in, confused, just asking how they could vote "how they were supposed too".)