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This is probably the first non-currency use of block chain that actually made my stop and reconsider the eye-roll I had locked and loaded. I like the idea of v
by kjeetgill 8y ago
This is probably the first non-currency use of block chain that actually made my stop and reconsider the eye-roll I had locked and loaded.
I like the idea of votes essentially sitting in a public ledger. They can be independently tallied by anyone.
You walk into a voting booth and get IDd. They hand you a random QR code token, pre-printed, not tied to your identity.
You place your vote. It can publically write your state/county maybe city information, vote, keyed by your QR token.
I can take my QR to any third party to verify my vote was correct and got tallied.
- sebiol 8y agoInteresting concept of separating your identity from the ID used to vote. There is one problem though. With the QR code you would be able to show someone how you voted. Thus making it possible to coerce or buy votes.
- ixwt 8y agoHomomorphic encryption might be able to be used to demonstrate your vote has been tallied, but make it impossible to prove what you voted for. The problem with this being that you can't vote that your vote was tallied for what you wanted it to be. But that is also a problem with the counters. A malicious counter could "miscount" a vote as another vote.