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Although I agree with much of the thrust of your comment, and especially that complexity is best understood as a sacrifice of trust, I don't fully understand yo
by jMyles 5y ago
Although I agree with much of the thrust of your comment, and especially that complexity is best understood as a sacrifice of trust, I don't fully understand your qualm with respect to the difficulty of this particular type of audit.
The paper ballot is like counting with an abacus: you need to actually witness the proceeding to be able to verify the accuracy of the result.
A vote on a public ledger is easy to verify, even with an extremely rudimentary understanding of the technology, and the verification can be performed at any time in posterity.
- JanisErdmanis 5y agoA big problem with verification is that with it one needs to prove that the vote had come from a legitimate voter and that he had not voted at most once. If the proof for legitimacy is not part of the vote it may have been just inserted by the system.