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> "Why can we have electronic banking, but not electronic voting, vowelless?” Secure transactions with your bank are doable, because there is no need to ensure
by sampo 8y ago
> "Why can we have electronic banking, but not electronic voting, vowelless?”
Secure transactions with your bank are doable, because there is no need to ensure anonymity from your bank (quite the opposite: your bank needs to know your identity).
Secure transactions while keeping the secret ballot is very very difficult to do. And secret ballot is one of the cornerstones of democracy.
- btschaegg 8y agoThis. Additionally, there's another very important factor to consider: If it is doable (it probably is), the result would be unnecessarily complex. Not only should such a system track votes in an anonymized fashion, it must also be reviewable by the public (how do you know the central server didn't just throw away your vote?). An important part in reviewability is simplicity: If you come up with an algorithm that provides all those properties but requires a PhD in mathematics to be properly understood, guess where Average Joe tells you to stick it. It's very hard to build trust with a screen that essentially just tells you "We did everything correctly! Honest!".
- ygra 8y ago> An important part in reviewability is simplicity: If you come up with an algorithm that provides all those properties but requires a PhD in mathematics to be properly understood, guess where Average Joe tells you to stick it. That's the reason for the highest German court to declare voting machines unusable here.