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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/votes; my proof: https://keybase.io/votes/sigs/k2yxtU-Nha4AZEKHljUFfbj3bERsL9eygIeIumJsvJY ]

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    Show HN: Voteism for India

    Hi HN. iOS: https://ios.voteism.org Android: https://android.voteism.org Voteism is an opinion poll app that makes it easy for you to express your preference for one electoral part…

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    VOTEism is a political opinion poll app originally made for the 2020 USA Presidential Election. We launched VOTEism on HN about two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…

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    Thanks for commenting. If you are concerned that our signature is over candidate name or ID, we don't do that. We sign the encrypted vote and not the plain text. We verify it on th…

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    Thanks for all the questions raised here. Really appreciate it. To answer your concerns/questions - 1. Registration part is open-source and we have taken precautions such that same…

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    When we process the data and aggregate the results on the air-gapped system we do make sure that the user vote is not counted twice. Like you pointed out this is one of the fundame…

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    Comment #23586263

    When we process the results on the air-gapped system our algorithm does make sure that the user's vote is counted only once (no matter how many times the user has voted). Please re…

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    Thanks for sharing the info. Will take a look.

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    Comment #23586146

    The encrypted data along with the signature of the encrypted vote is written to the bigquery table (and not directly to the air-gapped server) which is written to another temp fold…

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    Comment #23585931

    Thanks for pointing the issue with the thread pool and will take a look.

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    Comment #23584652

    Hi Everyone, We are redoing the Show HN for VOTEism. The first time we did a Show HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23430800 ), there was a very valid suggestion from the H…

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    Comment #23431414

    We are in the process of publishing the code on Github.Allow us a few weeks.

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    Comment #23430826

    Hi Everyone, The Covid-19 situation forced many things to shift online. We wondered what it would be like to conduct democratic elections online. While that is the far-far future, …

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    Comment #23418090

    HN seems to be the last resort to get Google to help :/

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    Comment #23333490

    AMP makes work easier for Google (their indexing and content presentation process). However it's presented as something that makes it easier for us the general public.

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