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> US company Follow My Vote hopes to employ cryptography to protect each ballot against tampering from end to end, keeping votes anonymous and immutable on a Bl
by kennydude 9y ago
> US company Follow My Vote hopes to employ cryptography to protect each ballot against tampering from end to end, keeping votes anonymous and immutable on a Blockchain ledger.
> The idea is that each voter has a private key and a unique voter ID, which allows them to monitor and verify that their vote is correctly recorded and has been tallied.
How would this ensure anonymous voting and presented in a way an everyday person can use it, would it be any more secure over pencil and paper?
- mgoetzke 9y agoI agree it wouldn't be helpful. It is similar to the problem of DNA evidence tests. The technique can be extremely certain, but the entire process chain must be evaluated in order to gauge trust. How likely is it that the evidence was correctly sampled, collected, was actually on the victim etc. For votes there is great benefit in having a paper process which can not be mass forged as easily as computer votes or tallies etc. It might take longer but it is of high importance.