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because there is no safe way to vote digitally
Funny, don't you bank digitally?
Bank transactions are not anonymous. A big advance in elections has been the secret vote.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's two competing issues here: 1) You could make digital elections secure with issued digital IDs, and simply recording everyone's vote and it would be easily auditable. But no one wants elections where (the contents of) your vote is recorded somewhere. So 2) You use your digital ID to be able to vote once, but if you're no longer connected to your vote, it would be much more suscepti…
Isn’t there a way to do the first option, but without attaching anyone’s votes to their digital id, except in a cryptographic way such that any individual person can look up their own vote online and verify that their vote has been counted correctly (with their own personal cryptographic key if some kind), but no one without the key can see which person made a given vote? I’m sure I remember watching a Ted talk about…
How would you audit that all encrypted votes belong to one and only one other eligible voter?
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Isn’t there a way to do the first option, but without attaching anyone’s votes to their digital id, except in a cryptographic way such that any individual person can look up their own vote online and verify that their vote has been counted correctly (with their own personal cryptographic key if some kind), but no one without the key can see which person made a given vote? I’m sure I remember watching a Ted talk about…
How would you audit that all encrypted votes belong to one and only one other eligible voter?
This is a good critique, and I’ve been wondering the same ever since watching that TED talk. Still. I’m not sure it’s much worse (or worse at all) than what we have right now, at least in the USA. Maybe I’m wrong about that though?
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How would you audit that all encrypted votes belong to one and only one other eligible voter?
This is a good critique, and I’ve been wondering the same ever since watching that TED talk. Still. I’m not sure it’s much worse (or worse at all) than what we have right now, at least in the USA. Maybe I’m wrong about that though?
Ballots are locked up and have detailed logs for where and who is handling them, and all critical processes have mutual verification from all (or both in reality) parties.
Ballot reconciliation ensures that every ballot printed is tracked, as well as ballots counted and ballots cast match up.
And as it is spread out over counties and districts, any injection anywhere would fail those checks.
I'm not an expert, and there is likely at lot more depth to this, but I did try to read up on it after the 2020 election and was sufficiently convinced at the time at least, but I'm happy for anyone to correct me.