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There is nothing good a “blockchain” can do for an election that a simpler centralised system like certificate transparency logs can't, and in either case you'd
by TazeTSchnitzel 6y ago
There is nothing good a “blockchain” can do for an election that a simpler centralised system like certificate transparency logs can't, and in either case you'd have to sacrifice the secret ballot to provide any meaningful verifiability, making the whole exercise strictly worse than the existing system.
- tzs 6y agoYou can have meaningful verifiability without giving up secrecy. See [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_sy...
- TazeTSchnitzel 6y agoOh, hmm, I guess there's interesting things that could be done with paper ballots combined with a digital system. I'm extremely skeptical of any completely digital system however.
- catlifeonmars 6y agoYes, you can, but not without additional complexity. Whether that additionally complexity is an acceptable tradeoff is an open question.