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> You mean as opposed to the current system that so many people understand and audit? The current system is trivial to explain, understand, and more importantl
by nuerow 5y ago
> You mean as opposed to the current system that so many people understand and audit?
The current system is trivial to explain, understand, and more importantly audit. I defy you to find a simpler, more robust system that the average Joe can and does understand.
Meanwhile, it's easy to understand how a complex system involving blockchains can and will be subjected to attacks exploiting it's opacity, or even the fact that it exists only in electronic form.
Let's put it this way: attackers even try to attack the very existence and legitimacy of boxes of paper ballots that are always on display and protected by security forces.
- hatware 5y agoSounds like a lot of hand-waving to make things seem simple, when they in fact are not.
- darawk 5y agoI don't understand all the details of our voting system. Maybe you do. But how exactly our system secures itself is quite complex, and I think the evidence for that was pretty straightforwardly demonstrated in the last year. The claims Donald Trump made about the election were false. But why, exactly, they were false is extremely difficult to explain, and honestly impossible for the average person to validate. The promise of blockchain voting is that a sufficiently motivated private individual could validate the entire election. That is presently not physically possible in our system.