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And the other major differences I pointed out?
by mikeash 8y ago
And the other major differences I pointed out?
- fooker 8y agoHere you go. > can’t be reversed in the event of fraud Counterexamples from one country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_Parliamentary_election_petitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_Parliamentary_elect... > need to protect the voter’s privacy And you are convinced that there are no algorithmic solutions? Here is an attempt from a famous computer scientist whose algorithms book most of us have read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreeBallot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreeBallot (This one turned out to be cumbersome to implement because of bad UX, but worked rather well.)
- mikeash 8y agoYou can potentially reverse an entire election and do it again, but you can’t reverse one vote. I’m sure there are solutions. My point isn’t that it’s impossoble, it’s that banking and voting are so different that the existence of solutions for one tells us nothing at all about the other.