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Re:What's Blockchain Good For, Anyway? For Now, Not Much by Canada on Monday October 28, 2019 @05:03PM (#21381638)
That is not true. See work by Andrew Neff on verifiable shuffles of secrets. It is practical to produce a proof that can be verified by the voter but not useful in proving which way the ballot has been cast to anyone else.
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Re:What's Blockchain Good For, Anyway? For Now, Not Much by ac29 on Monday October 28, 2019 @07:20PM (#21382833)
I skimmed through the paper here (http://web.cs.elte.hu/~rfid/p116-neff.pdf) and it doesn't appear to solve the problem. Any time you can see your vote, so can anyone looking over your shoulder.

The described method seems to prevent voting authorities from seeing specific voter's votes, which is useful, but it doesn't solve the "show me you voted for X, or I break your legs" problem.

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Re:What's Blockchain Good For, Anyway? For Now, Not Much by Canada on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:02AM (#21396722)
Yeah it makes the use of electronic voting less vulnerable to tampering, but obviously the voting still needs to he done in a private booth.
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