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Re:Bankman-Fried, others made 300 illegal political donation... by somenameforme on Thursday February 23, 2023 @01:35PM (#34914536)
Yet this is the only argument people have against something like digital voting with anonymized-open results. When voting you select, or are assigned, a secret random key. That key is tied to your ballot which is then published. You can verify your vote was counted, and counted accurately. Observers can verify that exactly the number of people who vote were counted, and it can all be done near instantly and completely openly/transparently.

It creates a system of electronic voting that's even more secure than paper trail audited traditional elections since there's no possibility of ballot stuffing, no possibility of changing votes, no possibility of discarding votes. The only argument against it is that you being able to verify your vote was counted accurately means you could also let somebody else verify how you voted. But the conspiracies where this could be a factor would be too small to matter, or near immediately end up getting busted. Even more so if you add a large 'finders fee' to anybody who exposes such a conspiracy.

Re:Bankman-Fried, others made 300 illegal political donation... by tzs on Thursday February 23, 2023 @03:31PM (#34916069)
You can do all that (except in a way that allows you to verify your vote was counted without being able to prove it to others) without a digital electronic voting system.

All you need is the ordinary "fill in the bubbles" optical scan system with two changes:

1. Special ink is used to print the ballots,

2. A special marker is used to mark them.

See "Scantegrity II: End-to-End Verifiability for Optical Scan Election Systems using Invisible Ink Confirmation Codes" [1] (in HTML [2]) and "Proving Coercion-Resistance of Scantegrity II" [3].

[1] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/evt08/tech/full_papers/c...

[2] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/evt08/tech/full_papers/c...

[3] https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/502.pdf

Re:Bankman-Fried, others made 300 illegal political donation... by somenameforme on Thursday February 23, 2023 @11:28PM (#34920754)
The problem with electoral systems is that one of the key threat actors you need to protect against from are the people running the election. And so any sort of a "special" requirement goes out the window, because it's not really special when you have arbitrary access to it.

This is why public/transparent systems can be so powerful. They are literally impossible to cheat, even if a bad actor has complete unmoderated read/write access to every single system.