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Re:Internet voting: Exactly what the 99% needs by eli on Thursday November 10, 2011 @05:51PM (#3222274)
It's MUCH more difficult than banking or taxes. Not only must your vote be secure and counted; it must be anonymous! Not even you should be able to prove to anyone else who you voted for and there must be no audit trail that could tie an individual vote to a person.
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Re:Internet voting: Exactly what the 99% needs by NinetyNine on Thursday November 10, 2011 @05:53PM (#3222287)
Doesn't bitcoin solve this problem?
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Re:Internet voting: Exactly what the 99% needs by AceJohnny2 on Thursday November 10, 2011 @07:23PM (#3222678)
No, bitcoin is "pseudonymous", transactions are public. It's not necessarily easily linked to your real identity (hence the pseudonymity), but with today's profiling tech, is that any guarantee?
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Re:Internet voting: Exactly what the 99% needs by mhansen on Thursday November 10, 2011 @07:24PM (#3222681)
No, bitcoin has an unencrypted audit trail.
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Re:Internet voting: Exactly what the 99% needs by JonnieCache on Thursday November 10, 2011 @07:31PM (#3222708)
Good luck issuing every voter with a keypair safely.
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Re:Internet voting: Exactly what the 99% needs by Raphael on Thursday November 10, 2011 @09:49PM (#3223131)
I vote by mail as required by my state. I could show anyone my ballot after filling it out but before mailing it.
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Re:Internet voting: Exactly what the 99% needs by eli on Thursday November 10, 2011 @10:00PM (#3223167)
Sure, you could get a dozen ballots and convince every candidate they owe you a bribe -- so long as you only mail one in!
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Re:Internet voting: Exactly what the 99% needs by tomjen3 on Thursday November 10, 2011 @06:01PM (#3222325)
That's the ideal, but in reality even normal pencil voting can be hacked since it is pretty simple to take a picture of your ballot with a smartphone. Then you can prove whom you voted for.
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Re:Internet voting: Exactly what the 99% needs by pingswept on Thursday November 10, 2011 @06:12PM (#3222370)
How would a picture of a ballot prove that it was your ballot, that the picture hadn't been doctored, and that the ballot hadn't been doctored?
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Re:Internet voting: Exactly what the 99% needs by chc on Thursday November 10, 2011 @06:58PM (#3222582)
I don't think that's very salient. You could raise analogous objections for Internet-based voting weaknesses, or most information leaks in general.
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Re:Internet voting: Exactly what the 99% needs by eli on Thursday November 10, 2011 @09:14PM (#3223046)
Only if the Internet-voting based system is very carefully designed. It's rather difficult to verify that your vote was counting in a way that doesn't also prove who you voted for.

There are some papers describing systems to do this that seems like they could work. But they're pretty complex.

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