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As others have said, this can lead to vote buying or voter intimidation ("vote for x or I'll break your face") Spitballing here: What if you get the receipt wi

As others have said, this can lead to vote buying or voter intimidation ("vote for x or I'll break your face") Spitballing here: What if you get the receipt with UUID and your choices, then at a separate kiosk only in the polling ststion you can enter your UUID to view the full results as posted online. Along with your UUID and results, a hash of the two is displayed and can be printed onto your receipt. Before leaving the station, you must detach and dispose of the plaintext voting choices, but you can hang onto the UUID + hash. At any time in the future, you can enter your UUID into the site, which will compute and display only the hash, giving you verification of no tampering but not disclosing any results to nefarious third parties.

mipmap04 9y ago
I feel people who don't understand hashing would have trouble understanding and trusting this. I like it though.
dilap 9y ago
Nice! Finding a good clean way to explain this will be a challenge though.
- filoeleven 9y ago
  Well sex sells, right? So we say that the hash is the child of your UUID and your ballot choices, and that someone who voted the same way you did but has a different UUID will have a different-looking child. Same goes for if you had voted differently than you actually did: the kid would look different! You did say "a good clean way" though, so perhaps that analogy is inappropriate :) Maybe it could be explained in terms of one of those "superhero name generators"[0], where the initials used come from your UUID and the superhero name chunks come from your voting choices. Sure, a hash is a lot more mathematically complicated but the principle remains the same (to the point of the possibility of two different UUIDs and voting choices ending up with the same hash, just as anyone having the initials DJT will become The Incredible Golden Tornado). [0]http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/superhero-name-generator.jpg http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/superhero-...

mipmap04 9y ago

I feel people who don't understand hashing would have trouble understanding and trusting this. I like it though.

dilap 9y ago

Nice! Finding a good clean way to explain this will be a challenge though.

filoeleven 9y ago
Well sex sells, right? So we say that the hash is the child of your UUID and your ballot choices, and that someone who voted the same way you did but has a different UUID will have a different-looking child. Same goes for if you had voted differently than you actually did: the kid would look different! You did say "a good clean way" though, so perhaps that analogy is inappropriate :) Maybe it could be explained in terms of one of those "superhero name generators"[0], where the initials used come from your UUID and the superhero name chunks come from your voting choices. Sure, a hash is a lot more mathematically complicated but the principle remains the same (to the point of the possibility of two different UUIDs and voting choices ending up with the same hash, just as anyone having the initials DJT will become The Incredible Golden Tornado). [0]http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/superhero-name-generator.jpg http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/superhero-...