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Yeah I took a class that talked about this - most people agree that what you'd end up with is companies or individuals forcing you to disclose a hash to prove y

Yeah I took a class that talked about this - most people agree that what you'd end up with is companies or individuals forcing you to disclose a hash to prove you voted the way they wanted. Votes kinda need to be unrecoverable at an individual level for this. There's some cool research on "homomorphic encryption" if you want to learn more - it basically opens up the data in aggregate for analysis without being able to disclose information about any individual record in the data, but it's hard to pull off in practice

Aunche 4y ago
> Yeah I took a class that talked about this - most people agree that what you'd end up with is companies or individuals forcing you to disclose a hash to prove you voted the way they wanted. That's what the one-way hash is for. If you're forced to provide a password beforehand, you can provide extra bogus passwords that cast ballots for both sides. The system can allow you to do this an arbitrary number of times. As far as paper ballots go, nothing stops someone from bullying you into taking a video of you voting and dropping it into the ballot box.
- ClumsyPilot 4y ago
  > nothing stops someone from bullying you into taking a video of you voting and dropping it into the ballot box. And yet this doesn't happen in real life, so it's not a real problem. Maybe because it's unmanageable and impractical to transfer, store anf watch 50 million videos of voting. But checking a hash is easy and automateable.