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re: Blockchain technology the future of voting?
Posted on 11/10/18 at 9:20 am to WaWaWeeWa
Posted on 11/10/18 at 9:20 am to WaWaWeeWa
I agree with you. Actually, there's been working groups (professors at MIT, etc.) working on this issue for years and publishing papers with proposed systems. The problem is how do you implement it and who do you trust? There has to be some sort of trust in any crypto system. It's not the math that gets hacked, but the implementation.
Some anonymous guy created Bitcoin. It's a brilliant system and he is certainly a very talented guy, but he's still anonymous and there's no way to truly verify that he hasn't stuck in some backdoor code that "pwns" the system when he wants.
And, finally, our lawmakers would have to approve it and all of them are lawyers. They would have no clue what is a good system and what isn't. If you want to see the problem with that, just read this paper written by a PhD candidate at Stanford. You going to tell me that an average lawmaker (or citizen) will understand how it works?
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Some anonymous guy created Bitcoin. It's a brilliant system and he is certainly a very talented guy, but he's still anonymous and there's no way to truly verify that he hasn't stuck in some backdoor code that "pwns" the system when he wants.
And, finally, our lawmakers would have to approve it and all of them are lawyers. They would have no clue what is a good system and what isn't. If you want to see the problem with that, just read this paper written by a PhD candidate at Stanford. You going to tell me that an average lawmaker (or citizen) will understand how it works?
LINK
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Posted on 11/10/18 at 9:26 am to AUstar
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but he's still anonymous and there's no way to truly verify that he hasn't stuck in some backdoor code that "pwns" the system when he wants.
It’s my understanding that the blockchain can be examined and all transactions or votes can be known. I think that is much more reliable than pieces of paper that have an unknown creation date.
But I get your point. That’s also why I suggested the machine accept a valid ID. Just like a credit card. The machine can also simultaneously produce a paper copy of the vote for a backup record.
This post was edited on 11/10/18 at 9:28 am
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