Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voting Machine

Re:Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voti... by _pdp_ on Friday November 25, 2016 @06:20AM (#13035908)

E-Voting can be easily solved with ID cards combined with something similar to the blockchain so that you can verify your vote if you need to.

The technology is there but I don't think there is any incentive to make it happen.

The only problem that I can see is that we cannot be certain that any e-voting technology will survive future information security research and as a result the design needs to factor continuous upgrades.

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Re:Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voti... by destructaball on Friday November 25, 2016 @06:41AM (#13036006)

The problem is that if you can verify your vote you can be coerced into voting in a certain way. There would need to be some sort of plausible deniability built in.

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Re:Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voti... by _pdp_ on Friday November 25, 2016 @07:13AM (#13036162)

Only you will be able to verify your vote. All votes are anonymous. You should be able to verify the very first vote as well and as a result of that verify the entire chain up to your vote. The last vote should also be verifiable to ensure that the chain is complete.

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Re:Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voti... by rtkwe on Friday November 25, 2016 @01:33PM (#13038841)

That doesn't solve the problem of verifiable votes. If you are able to verify your vote you can be coerced the verify it in the presence of someone else.

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