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Tom Scott made an excellent summary of why electronic voting is a bad idea, and explicitly covers both open source and blockchain as proposed solutions (hint: t

• tim333 6y ago
  It seems to me a fundamental problem of it all being electronic is any records if the system is hacked can be downloaded by the million fairly easy. On the other hand if the records of which voter number voted which way are printed on bits of paper and put in a big locked box it's pretty hard to reconstruct that on the fly unnoticed. But they are there if there is a court ordered investigation. The UK system I think is a bit like that. When I go in my name is checked against a voting slip number (on paper) and then I vote on a bit of paper so someone could theoretically figure which way I voted but the odds of someone going through both paper lists is minimal.