Re:FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems
by maxerickson on Monday August 29, 2016 @11:35AM
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Any good suggestions about how blockchain systems propose to securely and anonymously distribute voting power?
In the paper system Michigan uses, ballots are not distributed anonymously, but the identifying information is torn off the ballot before it is counted and secured.
(I think it's pointless to propose a voting system that depends on individuals securely managing a cryptographic wallet; it's pretty clear we don't yet live in a world where that's a good idea. But it'd be interesting to see how they propose to solve the above problem.)
In the paper system Michigan uses, ballots are not distributed anonymously, but the identifying information is torn off the ballot before it is counted and secured.
(I think it's pointless to propose a voting system that depends on individuals securely managing a cryptographic wallet; it's pretty clear we don't yet live in a world where that's a good idea. But it'd be interesting to see how they propose to solve the above problem.)
edit: logfromblammo answered my question below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12382298