Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software
by rakoo on Thursday August 03, 2017 @01:48PM
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To be more precise, there are 3 things that must be met for a vote to be considered acceptable, digital or not:
* it must be anonymous, ie nobody but you should know you you voted for
* it must keep integrity, ie nobody can change your vote
* it must be verifiable by all participants
Paper vote makes it easy to meet all criterions: just keep an eye on the ballot and you will be relatively sure that everything is fine. On the other hand it is impossible to have all those conditions with a digital vote, if only because digital anything isn't easily verifiable by all participants.
Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software
by JumpCrisscross on Thursday August 03, 2017 @02:00PM
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> criterions
One criterion, three criteria.
Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software
by unvote on Thursday August 03, 2017 @01:52PM
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Implementing anonymous, distributed, publically auditable voting is quite simple. Implementing it in such a way that you can verify that your vote was counted correctly, but not be able to present it to a coercive third party to as a receipt to verify you voted for their preferred candidate, is hard.
The problem with digital voting is that it needs to be anonymous who votes for what. That makes the problem much much harder.