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Blockchain is a buzzword, but we've already had strong cryptographic protocols for voting that predate Satoshi. We've known for decades how to conduct election
by dcolkitt 7y ago
Blockchain is a buzzword, but we've already had strong cryptographic protocols for voting that predate Satoshi.
We've known for decades how to conduct elections where every vote is provably counted, any individual vote is completely anonymous, and the identity of every voter participant is provable (i.e. preventing ballot stuffing).
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_sy...
- yum_tasty 7y agoWe've used horses for centuries... How dare anyone suggest that trains, planes or auto-mobiles could be useful.
- grepthisab 7y agoReally bad take. Blockchain offers no benefits to what provably worked in the past, whereas there are many advantages to planes, etc. over horses.
- yum_tasty 7y agoThat's completely inaccurate. 1. Every vote further secures the blockchain voting process. The only way to overcome this is with a 51% attack, so every vote cast further ensures the validity of the entire chain. 2. The chain can be public and anonymous, which gives every voter a verifiable way of understanding their vote. They can look and ensure that their vote was cast exactly as they intended, but it also allows administrators a way to review the votes. The core part that the article got wrong was that county administrators have a definite way of pre-tabulating as well as tabulating votes.