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Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @02:05PM (#20759718)
The big difference is with commerce and finance, we want to keep track of who moved what where. With voting, we deliberately want to keep votes secret, so no one can figure out who voted for which candidate, and only know the total votes each candidate got. To minimize coercion, we also want to make sure that a voter can only prove they voted, but not which candidate they voted for. These constraints make electronic voting at least an order of magnitude harder.
Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines by ahnick on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @02:39PM (#20760159)
This seems like the perfect application for zk-snarks. (i.e. prove that a valid vote occurred, but not where the vote came from).
Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines by avocado4 on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @04:55PM (#20761725)
What you describe (secure anonymous voting with unique ID) can be implemented online as well.