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Ask HN: What technologies would you use to “solve” voter fraud?

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Ask HN: What technologies would you use to “solve” voter fraud?

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Post by ethanpil »

The recent US election is on the minds of a lot of people. No matter what side you stand on or who you voted for, or if you do or don't believe there is widespread fraud, one thing I think the HN community can agree on is that the technologies exist to make vote privacy and integrity more certain that it is now.

What toolsets, technologies and workflow would you apply here and how?

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Post by auslegung »

ydlr wrote: post #2

Election Ink https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_ink

I guess it depends on what kinds of voter fraud you're trying to "solve", but it doesn't help with mail-in votes. Also, forcibly marking someone before they voted would prevent them from voting. But I do like that it's low tech, easily understood and applied

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Post by shoo »

one non-technological defence against fraud is having the elections conducted in a decentralised way. This is already implemented in the US as each of the individual states have responsibility. This doesn't defend against potential fraud by individual voters but it does offer some defence against potential fraud at a national level by the federal government -- the system would arguably be a lot more vulnerable if a single coherent government bureaucracy ran the election.

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Post by tu12 »

We can develop technologies to reduce fraud but there may still be the perception of fraud, even absent fraud itself.

This election was different from the expectations of many on both sides. You are observing people trying to come to terms with how expectations could have differed so much from the apparent reality. The accusations of fraud are just one such explanation.

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Post by refurb »

tu12 wrote: post #7

We can develop technologies to reduce fraud but there may still be the perception of fraud, even absent fraud itself. This election was different from the expectations of many on both sides. You are observing people trying to come to terms with how expectations could have differed so much from the apparent reality. The accusations of fraud are just one such explanation.

Exactly. You could have the most secure technology, but if the voting population can't understand it, it doesn't matter.

The best way to "solve" voter fraud is go old paper and pen ballots along with manual counting and observers from interested parties.

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Post by blindm »

pacamara619 wrote: post #6

Blockchain Machine Learning would be a perfrct fit for that.

Came here to say this too. Blockchain is a great technology for e-voting. Vinay Gupta[0] has more to say about it. Do a Youtube search for some of his talks, he talks at length about blockchain and its uses including a so called 'state in a box' system for bootstrapping micronations

[0] https://twitter.com/leashless

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