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How would this work in practice? Voters post to a publicly accessible append-only database from a personally owned computer? Can this be implemented on paper ba
by kumarsw 6y ago
How would this work in practice? Voters post to a publicly accessible append-only database from a personally owned computer? Can this be implemented on paper ballots?
- woofie11 6y agoI'm not sure it's relevant. Paper ballots can't be hacked on a national scale. I trust my local election commission. And even modest fraud can be managed; if someone wins with 45% of the vote, we've changed an outcome, but the democratic check-and-balance remains. The problem is closed, proprietary, secretive, touchscreen voting machines. For all we know, Biden won Texas. Or perhaps everyone wrote in Putin as a joke write-in. We just don't know. For how this works in practice, Applied Cryptography has a nice, readable explanation.