3 ms·
> How do you identify that voters have a vote The voters can see that their own transaction went through. Administrators (and everyone else) can count total vo
by orblivion 7y ago
> How do you identify that voters have a vote
The voters can see that their own transaction went through. Administrators (and everyone else) can count total votes cast at the end of the elections by the balances of the candidates' wallets. That's at least as good as paper ballots in this specific respect.
> and people that shouldn't have a vote didn't vote.
The voter's wallet can be tied to the voter's registration. Again, at least as good as what we have now, in this specific respect.
I think I've just made a more elaborated restatement of what I already said. Could you identify a specific hole in my system? You could point to voting software _in general_ being a bad idea, and that's fair enough. But it doesn't sound like that's what you were saying.
- acdha 7y ago> The voters can see that their own transaction went through. How do you prevent vote selling and coercion?
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- orblivion 7y agoYeah I can't solve that part :-P Is this what people mean by "the identification problem"? I must have misunderstood.
- hanniabu 7y agoI don't believe they'll be able to prove they voted for a candidate without giving away their keys.
- orblivion 7y agoThey could sell or rent the keys though.
- acdha 7y agoIf your boss, union leader, controlling spouse, etc. tells you to vote a certain way, they would gain the ability to demand that you give them your identifier if it's public or, if not, login and show them the final vote status. This is very hard to detect and anyone proposing a blockchain needs to learn why election systems are designed the way they are first since this is not a hypothetical problem.
- rootusrootus 7y agoWe have plenty of jurisdictions with vote-by-mail who've been doing it for a long time. Long enough that we should have some idea how common this occurrence is. It seems like the answer is that one vote isn't worth nearly enough to risk the penalties involved.
- misterdoubt 7y agoConcerns about vote selling and coercion are already gone. It's practically impossible to actually prevent people from filming their votes as they are cast, and livestreaming my vote to you is just as good as having you sit in my doorway for it.
- acdha 7y agoI don't know where you live but all of the polling places around me are very clear about not allowing photography. Similarly, someone who has pressure to vote a different way has the option of taking that picture to show to their boss and then getting a new ballot after voiding the old one.
- the_snooze 7y agoThe beauty of paper ballots is you can spoil them and get a new blank sheet. Sure, livestream yourself filling out your ballot. That doesn't mean you actually cast that ballot. The poll workers will tell you to put your camera away when you're outside the booth on the way to the ballot box.
- dumbmatter 7y agoAt least it'd be no worse than we have now with voting my mail.