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Nope. Blockchain has no anonymity.
wouldn't that be a feature in this case?
Not really. Your ballot should be secret, which goes against blockchain, I guess.
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Nope. Blockchain has no anonymity.
wouldn't that be a feature in this case?
Anonymous voting means that you can't sell your vote. Like, if I pay you $5 to vote for X, but I can't actually verify that you voted for X and not Y, then I wouldn't bother trying. Or if I'm your boss and I want you to vote for X... etc.
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#633It still surprises me how much essential services like public transport are completely reliant on cloud providers, and don't seem to have backups in place. Here in The Netherlands, almost all trains were first delayed significantly, and then cancelled for a few hours because of this, which had real impact because today is also the day we got to vote for the next parlement (I know some who can't get home in time befor…
can't believe it's 2025 and some still need to go to some place to vote. I can vote since I can remember(at least 20 years) by mail for anything, we also vote multiple times a year(4-6 times), we just get 1 Month before the things to vote by mail and then mail in back votes. Hope we can soon vote online to get rid of the paper overhead.
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Voting seems like one of the few problems that blockchain is actually the solution for.
Nope. Blockchain has no anonymity.
Monero demonstrates a solution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_signature)
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If India can have voters vote and tally all the votes in one day, then so can everyone else. It’s the best way to avoid fraud and people going with whoever is ahead. I am sympathetic with emergency protocols for deadly pandemics, but for all else, in-person on a given day.
> If India can have voters vote and tally all the votes in one day, then so can everyone else. In most countries, in the elections you vote or the member of parliament you want. Presidential elections, and city council elections are held separately, but are also equally simple. But in one election you cast your vote for one person, and that's it. With this kind of elections, many countries manage to hold the election…
Say, how many voting stations are there in a typical city/county in the US?
Here in Indonesia, in a city of 2 million people there are over 7000 voting stations. While we vote for 5 ballots (President, Legislative (National, Province, and City/Regency), we still use paper ballots and count them by hand.
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#636It still surprises me how much essential services like public transport are completely reliant on cloud providers, and don't seem to have backups in place. Here in The Netherlands, almost all trains were first delayed significantly, and then cancelled for a few hours because of this, which had real impact because today is also the day we got to vote for the next parlement (I know some who can't get home in time befor…
Wasn't cloud sold based on a premise to prevent the very thing that is happening? Sounds like a massive fail of the whole concept.
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#637Ahh it got me, Alaska air web site has an Azure outage banner
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Voting days should be a national holiday.
In washington we have a 100% mail-in voting system (for all intents and purposes). I can put my ballot back in the mail or drop at any number of drop-boxes throughout the city (less dropboxes in rural areas i'm sure). I think there are some allowances for in-person voting but I don't think they are often used. There is a ballot tracking system as well, I can see and be notified as my ballot moves through the counting…
You have a mail-in voting system... for now.
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Electronic voting and mail voting are very different things though.
They both share the fact that you don't see your vote enter a ballot box.
I mail in to Florida and I can log in and see that they received it and it was counted. So, close to seeing it enter the box.
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Off the top of my head, I can't think of an EU country that does not have some form of advance voting. Here in Latvia the "election day" is usually (always?) on weekend, but the polling stations are open for some (and different!) part of every weekday leading up. Something like couple hours on monday morning, couple hours on tuesday evening, couple around midday wednesday, etc. In my opinion, it's a great system. You…
Ireland doesn't have it.
I think that a lot of Ireland's voting practices come from having a small population but a huge diaspora. I imagine the percentage of people living outside Ireland what would be eligible to vote in many other countries is significant enough to effect elections, certainly if they are close.
As someone who spent the first 30 years of my life in Ireland but is now part of that diaspora, it's frustrating but I get it. I don't get to vote, but neither do thousands of plastic paddys who have very little genuine connection to Ireland.
That said, I'm sure they could expand the voting window to a couple of days at least without too much issue.