In Estonian parliamentary election, 44% of the votes were cast online
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#2I like this trend towards e-voting since it seems to be influenced by trends in cutting edge blockchain technology like decentralised autonomous organisations. It means that novel types of national governance may follow from blockchain governance models, such as liquid democracy.
This would be a vast improvement over our current representative democracy model since we'd be able to hold politicians accountable more easily, lobbyists would be less influential and we could put our voting power behind domain experts for issues of importance.
Re: In Estonian parliamentary election, 44% of the votes were cast online
#3I like this trend towards e-voting since it seems to be influenced by trends in cutting edge blockchain technology like decentralised autonomous organisations. It means that novel types of national governance may follow from blockchain governance models, such as liquid democracy. This would be a vast improvement over our current representative democracy model since we'd be able to hold politicians accountable more ea…
> such as liquid democracy
The German Pirate Party tried liquid democracy, and the result was similar to what's going in Wikipedia: There's a small set of people with more time on their hands than it good for them or others, and it doesn't take long for them to take over.
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#4Although not witout issues, the overall trust seems to be pretty high for e-voting(and voting numbers confirm it). And when voting, papervote always triumps digital one as last resort.
I also think this is one thing that also gets more young people to vote. They are familiar with technology and so used to doing everything online. For example I would have not voted for the last couple of elections if digital voting would not have been available.
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#5Any more in-depth treatment on the properties of the system and how it resists various attacks?
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#6Wasn't it compromised a few years ago?
[1] https://edri.org/estonian-eid-cryptography-mess-750000-cards...
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#7Congratulations to President McPresidentface.
Re: In Estonian parliamentary election, 44% of the votes were cast online
#8Any more in-depth treatment on the properties of the system and how it resists various attacks?
"Security Analysis of Estonia's Internet Voting System" @31C3 (December 2014)
https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6344_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412281... (starts at 20:26)
They failed on quite some points, I cannot believe they fixed all issues.
Re: In Estonian parliamentary election, 44% of the votes were cast online
#9Any more in-depth treatment on the properties of the system and how it resists various attacks?
https://estoniaevoting.org/findings/paper/
TL;DR: It's not that good.
Re: In Estonian parliamentary election, 44% of the votes were cast online
#10I like this trend towards e-voting since it seems to be influenced by trends in cutting edge blockchain technology like decentralised autonomous organisations. It means that novel types of national governance may follow from blockchain governance models, such as liquid democracy. This would be a vast improvement over our current representative democracy model since we'd be able to hold politicians accountable more ea…
> such as liquid democracy The German Pirate Party tried liquid democracy, and the result was similar to what's going in Wikipedia: There's a small set of people with more time on their hands than it good for them or others, and it doesn't take long for them to take over.
I'm confused, why would a small set of people with time on their hands be able to compromise a liquid democracy? Are there not workarounds to the problems encountered? Interesting how we iterate so often, yet are so concrete in our conclusions about improvements to our own governance.