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JFC already. NO MORE DIGITAL ELECTIONS. Period. How hard is that? Re-countable paper mail-in ballots with physical signatures on them like Oregon has should be implemented nationwide.

A blockchain hosted by a single entity isn't any more secure than an excel document on a shared drive.

Public Key Cryptography COULD be used to perform public secure elections though. Consider a scheme like this:

The entity which is performing the election has a private key. The individual voting has a private key. The voting precinct would have a key

The vote gets published publicly with the address (generated using the key) of the election, the voter, and the location. The results are signed by all three keys.

The vote can be verified by the voter, because they can check their vote and verify their vote is present and reported accurately.

The vote can be verified by the entity, because only votes they recorded would have access to their key.

The public could verify, because they could count the votes independently.

A simple integrity check could be performed, comparing the number of published votes to the number of votes counted. A precinct which is reported incorrectly could be audited.

I haven't figured out how to deal with vote stuffing though... so this isn't a viable scheme yet. A bad actor could file fraudulent votes and with the election and precinct key, they would look valid to the public, especially if those votes were counted towards the total.

Privacy is another concern, anything that would link a voter with their unique key would effectively public publish an individual's vote, so that would be no good. I'm not super sure if there is a problem with knowing that the same person voted for Candidate A in one race and Candidate B in another. Giving a user a dozen keys for a dozen votes seems cumbersome, but is possible. I don't see any issue with giving a new key out every election, and having the govt publish the election's public key, so the election could be identified.

Where these votes get recorded is the tricky part. Who operates that system? There is a mechanism in place where a vote could verify their vote was recorded, but it would require them keeping their public key for that election. The voter's private key could be discarded after the vote.

Anyways... that's a long winded post laying out an incomplete idea by a software engineer whose specialty is not security or cryptography. If you can think of additional flaw, or some solutions, feel free to share.

The goal would be to create a system that is publicly verifiable without revealing any private information

I’d prefer lock boxes and paper ballots please.

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BTW this isn't really about "voting" as it's typically understood, but something larger. Excerpt:

In this perfect world, Siri argues, the supposedly unhackable and absolutely transparent blockchain will ensure that no centralized election authority is required to tabulate a vote, and no corrupt politician or gridlocked legislature can interfere with the popular mandate. But coming up with a superior form of voting technology is just the beginning; the larger, far more revolutionary goal is to devise a decentralized decisionmaking process that eliminates the necessity for any kind of central government at all.

“We are not in the business of selling e-voting machines or helping modernize governments with internet voting,” Siri says. “We want to empower people down to the individual level without asking for the permission of governments.”

If the dream of bitcoin, the token generated by Satoshi Nakamoto’s blockchain, was to free money from central bank control, then the dream of Sovereign is to free politics from central government control.

Siri’s complicated, multilayered solution to democratic dysfunction raises a host of questions and paradoxes. There is no shortage of secure-voting-systems experts who believe that radical blockchain democracy could cause more problems than it solves, and is in fact an invitation to gaming and manipulation at odds with the idea of transparent, fraud-free voting.

Paper please! And paper ONLY

Holy shit, we spend 12 years of education teaching every man, woman and child in America how to use a number 2 pencil to fill in multiple choice bubbles. Even the disabled ones!

We do not need blockchain for this. We do not need Microsoft, Oracle, Google or Apple. We don't need anything that cannot be understood start to finish by everyone capable.of using a number two pencil to vote

How about paper?

Blockchain is going to solve all our problems!

for those with a technical background the whitepaper behind this is interesting: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f5zzofunx186dcu/The%20Social%20Smart%20Contract.pdf?dl=0

I'd take a federal voting day holiday over block chain voting.

An election system should be completely separate from any obscure bullshit.

We don't want this tied to the same "network" as American Idols voting system. A no nonsense closed strict validation system can go a long way in returning voices lost in the disenfranchised laden system that we have now.

However, Paper balloting should always remain a primary and fully supported option. Personal "opinion" and all that added of course..

Spoke about this week's ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/95dsvp/west_virginia_to_experiment_with_mobile_phone/e3s0d3q/

xkcd said it best

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