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Pretty sure this would be a good application for blockchain technology, which would work better than pen and paper and open to the public!
by bjornjaja 7y ago
Pretty sure this would be a good application for blockchain technology, which would work better than pen and paper and open to the public!
- bduerst 7y agoIs this satire? https://xkcd.com/2030/ https://xkcd.com/2030/
- dwheeler 7y agoI hope it's satire. Anyone who thinks that paperless voting machines are acceptable for non-trivial elections should first see https://www.xkcd.com/2030/ https://www.xkcd.com/2030/ , and then look at https://www.verifiedvoting.org/ https://www.verifiedvoting.org/
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- uncletaco 7y agoThe problem with "open to the public" is it opens up an avenue of reprisal. Let's say your parks department were headed by a libertarian guy who vehemently opposes using public funds to fill a landfill and turn it into a park and he finds out his deputy voted for the ordinance to spend the money on said park. He could retaliate. Another hypothetical could involve your local councilman finding out which members of his district voted for him and which didn't, and using that knowledge to influence who's streets get priority when plowing snow this winter and which don't. Any voting system, including those based on blockchain, should be designed in such a way that disclosure of someone's vote is entirely up to them.
- tangent128 7y agoAdditionally, disclosure of one's vote can't be provable, or the failure to prove you voted "correctly" can itself invite retaliation.