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Re:Sierra Leone government denies the role of blockchain in ... by jacques_chester on Monday March 19, 2018 @09:38PM (#16625248)
> This is the exact primitive you want for elections - tamper-proof logging

It is exact opposite of what is wanted.

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Re:Sierra Leone government denies the role of blockchain in ... by darawk on Monday March 19, 2018 @10:36PM (#16625559)
...by who? I want it. Everyone I know wants it. The only people that don't want it are kleptocrats and dictators.
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Re:Sierra Leone government denies the role of blockchain in ... by jacques_chester on Monday March 19, 2018 @10:45PM (#16625601)
A tamper-proof log of votes is how you make it possible to buy or extort votes. That works pretty well for the kleptocrats and dictators.
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Re:Sierra Leone government denies the role of blockchain in ... by darawk on Monday March 19, 2018 @11:11PM (#16625727)
I've already explained elsewhere in this thread that it's easy to make this system also deniable, so that you cannot be extorted. As for buying votes, the deniability would make it equally difficult to prove you voted a certain way as it is now.
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Re:Sierra Leone government denies the role of blockchain in ... by jacques_chester on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:56PM (#16633574)
It's deniable afterwards, but not during. At some point you reveal to the voter a way to map their vote to an anonymised 1 or 0. That point is vulnerable and that point will be where someone expects you to show them something.
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