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Votebook – A proposal for a blockchain-based electronic voting system [pdf]

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If society decides the risk of these types of behaviors is significant they could pass a law making it illegal to ask someone how they voted. For those who would violate such a law even if it existed, they are by definition criminals, and already have the ability to tell you "Give me your banking passwords, or else". Blockchain itself won't cure all the problems with humans being criminals in this world, but blockcha…

Voting is the way it is specifically to combat this problem. Your solution tries to fight against a problem that is basically impossible without systematic widespread corruption by opening it up to localized corruption which is historically common. You're solution doesn't make the situation better it makes it worse. Anyhow if you can't understand why secret ballots exist after all that explanation I'm never going to…

Our current voting system IS secret ballot, and IS also ALREADY based on computer DATABASES (not paper). You fail to realize that blockchain is basically just an encryption strategy for databases. It IMPROVES database security. It has absolutely nothing to do with whether votes are kept secret or not. It ONLY has to do with whether it's technically possible to tamper with the data or not.

Bottom line is: paper ballots CAN be tampered with (whether secret or public) but blockchain cannot. Got it now?

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> Also: ethereum

Dude if you want to prove blockchain can be incorrectly implemented just write an implementation yourself. I'm sure it would fail all test cases.

>>> Like you have even one single example in your mind of a buggy implementation

>> Ethereum

> Dude if you want to prove blockchain can be incorrectly implemented

You're not making much sense. Sorry if life has been hard on you.

Re: Votebook – A proposal for a blockchain-based electronic voting system [pdf]

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Dude if you want to prove blockchain can be incorrectly implemented just write an implementation yourself. I'm sure it would fail all test cases.

>>> Like you have even one single example in your mind of a buggy implementation >> Ethereum > Dude if you want to prove blockchain can be incorrectly implemented You're not making much sense. Sorry if life has been hard on you.

You do two word posts, and then accuse other people of not communicating well.
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