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Anonymous ID: b4cf72 Aug. 15, 2020, 11:50 p.m. No.10304837   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>10304794

Weird for the USPS to do it, but hey I guess someone has to.

For what it's worth if some form of postal or online voting is used, it absolutely has to be cryptographic in nature.

Everyone has to be able to verify that the results are legit (match the result against a public key of each poll). You have to be able to verify that your vote was counted, either at the time of casting it, or after the fact.

How you verify that only those eligible to vote can do it, that's the tricky question that no technology except maybe a tattooed QR code, or NFC implant can solve.

Anonymous ID: b4cf72 Aug. 16, 2020, 12:02 a.m. No.10304896   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4922

>>10304861

I don't see how. The patent states that the registered vote gets a voting pack (will contain a private key, or hopefully a way to generate a private key no one else knows about) which is signed by the election authority.

When you vote you sign the poll with your private key at the same time you can check that later and when your vote is added it the results are signed by the election authority. The results can be checked with their public key, you can check your vote is counted, you can see the results and know they are accurate. It all seems like a good thing to me.

Though yeah, maybe there are unforseen problems. My remark about Bitcoin is that a lot of people trust it implicitly. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth anything.

Anonymous ID: b4cf72 Aug. 16, 2020, 12:14 a.m. No.10304985   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5005

>>10304922

It seems to me you're comparing showing up to vote with trusting that a piece of paper you mail in is going to be counted. Of course that's worse.

Using cryptography to secure and verify information is as old as the hills though, and if done properly removes any and all questions about election tampering.

Except for who is eligible to vote of course, but any system has that problem.