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Public trust demands open-source voting systems

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Re: Public trust demands open-source voting systems

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With zero-knowledge proofs and a trusted decentralized ledger, you can prevent double-counting and make the vote untraceable back to the voter. You can also guarantee that the voter was authorized to vote as per the authority, but the authority cannot know which specific vote was theirs. As for coercion, there are really two types: coercing someone into voting a certain way, and coercing them afterward to reveal how…

> As for coercion, there are really two types: coercing someone into voting a certain way, and coercing them afterward to reveal how they voted. These amount to the same thing. The ability to reveal how one votes is what allows them to be coerced. > It might suck if the coercer doesn’t believe you and you really did delete them, but at that point thugs beating you up is kind of its own separate problem. The point of…

These do seem like things that could be solved eventually. But really I'd say my take is that you're not putting the same effort, and probably since you have more knowledge of the digital side, have a bias, towards seeing its flaws while not putting the same effort in seeing the flaws in the current process.

Trade offs, that's the known answer to all comp sci problems :p. Here too it applies.

Re: Public trust demands open-source voting systems

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keypair != human

Ballot papers != Human either. We'd still have an old fashioned government employed person validate you can vote and are human.

the double-spend problem is unrelated to account-association (KYC, etc.) problems, solving the former doesn't solve the latter

the core problem with keypair-based systems is that people will lose their private keys, and that has to be accommodated, which requires trust delegation, which blah blah blah we've already worked thru these issues 1000 years ago and the result is representative government

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