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In most countries internet access is a total monopoly and so unreliable that the service blows out during a championship sports game let alone the entire countr
by hackermailman 8y ago
In most countries internet access is a total monopoly and so unreliable that the service blows out during a championship sports game let alone the entire country using it at once to vote. Meanwhile we have managed to avoid election disputes leading to riots and burning down parliament for 150 years using a simple volunteer run hand counting method with independent observers. I wouldn't be so quick to throw out a century of success for unproven technology from 2008. Maybe if one day we have guaranteed p2p connections avoiding the high priced access control by just 1 or 2 telecom monopolies, and weak standards/protocols that aren't being hacked on a regular basis like LTE.
- samstave 8y ago>Meanwhile we have managed to avoid election disputes leading to riots and burning down parliament for 150 years using a simple volunteer run hand counting method. The words 'Accurate, Accountable, Auditable' do not occur in this sentence.
- hackermailman 8y agoVote selling also doesn't occur in that sentence. There's a reason we don't tear off a hash from a ballot right now to be given to voters, enabling them to verify later their hand counted ballot wasn't discarded or used to vote for somebody else, because it enables vote selling since now you have proof you voted for a candidate. Foreign superpowers could even automate this with a smart contract. Upload a signed txn proving you voted how they want you to and collect your $100 worth of coins. SuperPACs with hundreds of millions of advertising dollars would cancel ads and buy your vote.
- jhasse 8y agoZero knowledge proofs can solve this.
- hndamien 8y agoThe problem is that the old successful technology is being thrown out for broken technology anyway. Blockchain voting might be a way to prevent “them” implementing that awful stuff.