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That actually seems like an interesting idea, but I'd like for the public to be able to view the list of unique coins for each candidate and verify theirs went

That actually seems like an interesting idea, but I'd like for the public to be able to view the list of unique coins for each candidate and verify theirs went where they wanted it to. Wouldn't the 1-coin-to-1-person connection be vulnerable to manipulation, since you wouldn't want someone (perhaps on the inside) to be able to generate coins and spam-vote?

IanCal 12y ago
> That actually seems like an interesting idea, but I'd like for the public to be able to view the list of unique coins for each candidate and verify theirs went where they wanted it to This now means that if you can be forced to give up (or someone knows through other means) your coins "id" then they can see how you voted. This is something there are quite a few laws in place to try and stop with the current voting system, and it's considered to be a very important property.
marcosdumay 12y ago
At the end, those are three features we want from a voting system: that it's anonymous, verifiable, and that one can not prove what he voted for. Well, they are conflicting features, and we just can't have all three. Paper ballots guarantee none, but people accept it because hacking it is thought to be expensive. That cypto-currency vote, if I got the idea correctly, is verifiable, but fails on anonymity and lack of proof. It may be possible to fix anonymity by some coin-mixing algorithm, but I'm not sure the lack of proof is even possible in practice (for any algorithm). But anyway, remember that paper ballots guarantee none...