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Re:Decentralized internet is planned for Dubai, courtesy of ... by Quarrelsome on Friday December 15, 2017 @10:55AM (#15932644)
Call me crazy but if we have this then e-voting becomes easier to do because locality is more inbuilt to the system making fraud harder because you can more easily tie voting to geography/gps. i.e. in an internet based system the votes can come from anywhere but in a system based in the physical world it might be possible to track the votes to a geographic location and if 10k votes come from a building site you can verify those votes are fraudulent as opposed to a massive block of flats.
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Re:Decentralized internet is planned for Dubai, courtesy of ... by Jhsto on Friday December 15, 2017 @11:34AM (#15932976)
I think that is unlikely. A vote is tied to a person, not a location. That said, I think voting system like Estonia's, where you have a cryptographic key on your ID, is the only correct way to do e-voting.
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Re:Decentralized internet is planned for Dubai, courtesy of ... by Quarrelsome on Friday December 15, 2017 @11:38AM (#15933010)
you're still thinking old system. In new system geography is fine because elections are cheap and you can do them weekly/daily. Fraud matters much less because you can't do much damage in a day/week as opposed to the sort of terms we have today. You can also temporarily back to the last known good recent from a particular quadrant/zone. What matters is long-term, persistent fraud and this can be audited against using geography and plausibility.

Sure a tourist can vote in one week but their vote is gone the next week after they fly home. It would be a new paradigm so try not to use the mindset of the old system where elections are expensive and results long-term.

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Re:Decentralized internet is planned for Dubai, courtesy of ... by mtgx on Friday December 15, 2017 @11:44AM (#15933052)
> you can more easily tie voting to geography/gps

We've had both cruise and military ships that got their GPS spoofed by malicious actors. Tying voting to GPS doesn't seem too much of a hurdle for an attacker wanting to hack a country's elections.

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