Strongly agreed. Especially re: the blockchain technology part. Blockchains *could* have a useful role, though, as part of strengthening a very traditional audit trail. All materials useful to the auditors should be securely timestamped on creation.
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And that secure timestamp problem is one blockchains are very good at. Here's a particularly good case study: https://petertodd.org/2017/carbon-dating-the-internet-archive-with-opentimestamps …
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Plenty vulnerable.
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Punch cards with a signed ballot stub. They work fine and provide physical documentation of a voter’s choices.
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B'ah .. with that logic we'd still be using quill pens and chucking our waste out on the street. thank goodness progress answers to no one. http://tinyurl.com/blockvote-scotland …
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On the contrary, I think you should attempt it. Of course, the responsible thing to do would be to ask white-hat hackers to try to break the system before you use it for a vote. Would you care for a wager on the outcome?
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Check out how the vote is rigged in Russia. With paper ballots. The percentage of fake votes on station with electronic ballots, however, is close to zero.
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I promise you paper ballots can be cheated
- we just had elections two month ago, and over 200,000 ballots were “void” & another 200,000 were missing, oh & some dead people voted as well…Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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