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Maybe I'm incredibly naive but if we can build safe financial trading platforms then why cant we build safe electronic voting platforms? It seems like someone w
by Taylor_OD 8y ago
Maybe I'm incredibly naive but if we can build safe financial trading platforms then why cant we build safe electronic voting platforms? It seems like someone would have as much motivation to steal money as they would to change votes if it was possible.
- jfk13 8y agoI'd guess that a lot of that "safety" depends on the audibility of what happens on financial trading platforms. If someone manipulates them, this can be discovered (and the manipulator punished) precisely because there's a trail recording exactly who did what. If a voting platform has such a trail, what becomes of ballot secrecy? And if it doesn't, how will the process be reliably audited? I'm sure a simple, transparent, and bullet-proof blockchain solution is just around the corner. /s
- shaki-dora 8y agoVoting needs not only to be safe. It needs to be safe in a way that even old people, or those with zero knowledge of technology, do not belief conspiracy theories about how their vote is being stolen.