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Call me crazy but if we have this then e-voting becomes easier to do because locality is more inbuilt to the system making fraud harder because you can more eas
by Quarrelsome 9y ago
Call me crazy but if we have this then e-voting becomes easier to do because locality is more inbuilt to the system making fraud harder because you can more easily tie voting to geography/gps.
i.e. in an internet based system the votes can come from anywhere but in a system based in the physical world it might be possible to track the votes to a geographic location and if 10k votes come from a building site you can verify those votes are fraudulent as opposed to a massive block of flats.
- Jhsto 9y agoI think that is unlikely. A vote is tied to a person, not a location. That said, I think voting system like Estonia's, where you have a cryptographic key on your ID, is the only correct way to do e-voting.
- Quarrelsome 9y agoyou're still thinking old system. In new system geography is fine because elections are cheap and you can do them weekly/daily. Fraud matters much less because you can't do much damage in a day/week as opposed to the sort of terms we have today. You can also temporarily back to the last known good recent from a particular quadrant/zone. What matters is long-term, persistent fraud and this can be audited against using geography and plausibility. Sure a tourist can vote in one week but their vote is gone the next week after they fly home. It would be a new paradigm so try not to use the mindset of the old system where elections are expensive and results long-term.
- mtgx 9y ago> you can more easily tie voting to geography/gps We've had both cruise and military ships that got their GPS spoofed by malicious actors. Tying voting to GPS doesn't seem too much of a hurdle for an attacker wanting to hack a country's elections.