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So you can demonstrate that votes correspond to people voting. Not on an individual basis, but just to make sure that if you have 100 votes on a machine (or 100

So you can demonstrate that votes correspond to people voting. Not on an individual basis, but just to make sure that if you have 100 votes on a machine (or 1000 votes across 10 machines at a location, they happened when there were 100 (or 1000) people at that voting location. It prevents adding votes before or after the fact, like putting a thumb on a scale.

yifanl 4y ago
You'd have to hide the results of the vote if you're collating them with timestamp, otherwise you could pretty easily figure out Bob who showed up early voted for the square. And I'm unsure how adding timestamp helps with the problem you're trying to solve, don't you just need Sum(machine vote count at location X) == voters visiting location X. (Also this hueristic is kinda leaky since how do you account for voters protesting with intentional spoilers?)