Hadi PartoviVerified account

Consider, Estonia has similar scale population and GDP as West Virginia, and has had smartphone voting for many years, successfully. (And they are moving to an internally-managed blockchain to decentralize public recordkeeping for audit purposes)

(That said, Estonia is run on a much more secure digital ID system for the whole population)

And, as others on this thread have pointed out, this particular implementation in West Virginia has some obvious flaws, but that doesn’t mean the actual concept is wrong.https://twitter.com/gossithedog/status/1026603800365330432?s=21 …

@benadida your blog post asks the right critical Qs about the Voatz implementation, but I hope you agree with the concept of using technology to improve the integrity, cost, and access issues with voting systems? What are flaws in Estonia’s approach?

Voting is a particularly hard problem to get right. Probably a longer conversation than a tweet, and something I'm deeply passionate about, so always happy to chat. Will link a couple of things.

Here's some concerning analysis of Estonia's system: https://estoniaevoting.org/press-release/ 

I've given a few talks about the difficulty of getting voting right. A couple have decent recordings. One at Mozilla a few years ago: https://air.mozilla.org/vote/