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The hard problem with voting systems isn’t counting the votes, but insuring that each eligible person casts at most one vote. Blockchain based voting systems m
by kristjansson 8y ago
The hard problem with voting systems isn’t counting the votes, but insuring that each eligible person casts at most one vote.
Blockchain based voting systems might help prevent the rare case of multiple voting, but AFACT, do nothing to protect an unscrupulous government from stuffing the ballot box with fabricated votes. Ultimately, like the other issues GP raised, the technology seems to do little to solve the underlying social problems.
- lend000 8y agoI am not sure how the popular implementations address this, but generally speaking you can add arbitrary additional plaintext to each transaction in the block, and contribute that extra data to the signature with the private key. For example, full name or social security number (not applicable in the US since socials are private info, but feasible in asymmetric key ID systems such as Estonia's. Which brings up another potential application of blockchain: identity verification and management).