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At that point, why use miners if you aren't relying on them for security?

• mariusor 5y ago
  Like I said a little higher in this thread, I don't think that the concept of electronic voting using a blockchain ledger needs to be mapped on the concept of cryptocurrencies. The way I'm thinking this can work is having an organization (the tallier) that creates ledgers for a particular vote (ie, a specific question being asked: Should our city allow construction on Lot A1?) The "voter" can submit a request to participate in this vote in an "enrollment" step. The success of this process leaves the voter with a public/private key that is known to the "tallier" (the public part) and allowed to vote but is not a direct way of identifying the "voter". In the voting period, the above key can be used by the voter to cast a ballot (a yes or a no in the example), the payload of the vote can not be decrypted unless you are the tallier, from the outside you can only see that a particular key has cast a ballot. The tallier can see that one of the enrolled keys has cast the ballot, it decrypts the vote and adds it to the tally. Once the voting ends, the tally is finalized and the ledger is closed and archived. Why does this require blockchain ledgers, you might ask. Because the information in the ledgers, the voting one and the enrollment one need to be public and at the same time tamper proof. If there's another technology that can offer that, maybe it should also be a candidate, but personally I haven't researched enough to know of one. :)