Re:US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at...
by chrsstrm on Sunday October 28, 2018 @05:45PM
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One of the cornerstones of US voting is secrecy. The ability to cast your vote without the public knowing who you voted for contributes to the integrity of the entire election.
Today you can already be assured your vote was counted - in California you can go to voterstatus.sos.ca.gov and review your previous election participation and see that it was recorded.
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Re:US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at...
by perpetualcrayon on Sunday October 28, 2018 @10:06PM
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Of course I'm not thinking we should make a voter's ballot public. Through public key cryptography a voter should be able to secretly retrieve and confirm their votes. And like with any other system there would be a small handful of people who will "claim" their ballot was counted incorrectly. But as long as the system has integrity only a small handful of people will do this. If large swaths of people start blaming the system of counting their vote incorrectly then there are real problems we should all know about.