Re:Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s proble...
by pksebben on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @09:38PM
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I'm convinced that people afraid of electronic voting are either hucksters that like the status quo or people who've been convinced by them.
if you're worried about voting being a black box, it already kind of is. what proof did you get that your last vote was accounted for properly? who counted it?
if you're worried about "hacking" you're not paying quite enough attention. We have secure systems that exist. At least as secure as a fuckton of snail mail managed by tens of thousands of the worlds most insecure asset, people.
I like your system. Ping me if there's ever an open codebase and I'll contribute.
Same process, just s/USPS/SMTP/. But if that's fine, why make the user jump through the email hoop? Hell, digital ballots would give you stronger guarantees for verifying your vote. Publish all the ballots publicly and base the final tally for digital votes on that public ledger. Every voter will have a code they can use to pull up their specific ballot and see that it's correct. And since the codes are public that's not actually enough to prove it was yours (yay non-repudiation).
No cryptography, no hashes, no zero trust proofs. The internet is only used to move a document from A->B and security model could be explained to the least technical person since it's a direct analogue of how you would do it IRL.