Anon Archived They're going to throw the entire election not just POTUS (QRV)
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Anon Archived They're going to throw the entire election not just POTUS (QRV)
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[–] 25518883? 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Blockchain is just an underlying mechanism. How do you put your vote on there? It will have to be mediated by a voting machine (hackable, have been shown in the past to have all kind of vulnerabilities), an app (fraught with identification problems), or still by mail etc (not much advantage over the current system).
Many countries still use paper ballots marked with markers, did you know? If you Americans could count at a reasonable speed, like the rest of the world, you wouldn’t need to worry about how this whole thing is run. Most anglosphere countries also manage to have successful mail in ballots for special elections, absentee voting, etc without cases of fraud beyond isolated individual incidents.
Stop trying to use technology to solve every People Problem.
[–] 25519013? 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
Third world countries still vote with an inked index finger (Fingerprint captured on the ballot). Old school but works.
[–] 25520373? 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
It's not about the finger print and there probably isn't a good print on most ballots. The point is that if you have ink on your finger you have already voted so you can't vote twice.
This doesn't work in a world with soap... It also doesn't work in a country with substantial foreign occupants.
[–] 25521395? 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Blockchain will simply put the votes on a public ledger which private voters can validate their vote was accurately counted using their private voting key.
[–] 25522477? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Yep. And it cannot be altered.
[–] 25519315? 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
CORRECT! Paper ballots & voter ID are the cure...
I'm ready to put my fingerprint on the ballot also.
[–] 25519314? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
300 million people voting vs 1 million people voting is the difference. I agree we should be putting out thumb print on every vote we cast. Then slip it in to the machine and its counted. Its not hard.
[–] 25521472? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
thats just a scaling issue, no real difference