At some point to need to enroll every voter. Who controls that process? Corrupt election officials can still authorize millions of bogus "voters". With in-person voting they have to send warm bodies to cast those bogus votes. If voting were to be done electronically (blockchain or otherwise) one 400lb guy sitting in bed can cast them all.
This is about creating a false sense of security.
>In-person + Paper Ballots + State-id auto registration + system to account for only 1 vote per id
Add voter ID and we're there.
What the Dems are trying to do is deliberately send out 2x as many ballots as will really be used so they can dump a truckload of counterfeits into the system without creating >100% turnout… which would raise questions. This is what we need to avoid, be it via mailed paper ballots or a blockchain system.
Yeah. "Voter ID" isn't a new for of identification. It's the concept that voters should be required to present some sort of government issued ID (eg: driver's license) to prove they are who they say they are before being allowed to vote. Unbelievably, that is still not required in most part of America.
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>We need to have transparency. The only solution that has the best architecture to mange this is blockchain.
That just let's YOU check to see that YOUR vote was tallied correctly. The problem is the surplus of fraudulent votes from people who don't exist.
>Please describe the weak links.I genuinely want to know.
The system itself, I have no doubt, can be made secure. The weak link is with the people you put in charge of it. And this requires a much smaller conspiracy of corrupt officials to rig an election.
> Anyone can host the ledger.
That's not the issue.
Obviously, anyone cannot authorize IDs and ballots. Only state officials do that. And it's state officials who we don't trust. A good system is one that requires an impractically large conspiracy to tamper with. For that it needs warm bodied showing up at polling locations.
>how do you know your vote was counted and accurately counted? How do I validate / verify my vote?
This is certainly something can be improved using crypto systems. But changing legitimate votes is not how They're planning on stealing this election. And they wouldn't need to do that to seal any future election. They just need to dump in a heap of fraudulent votes from people who don't exist. That is what they are trying to do right now.
If we simply needed to all a validation mechanism then that could be down with serial-numbered ballot with tare-away coupons. the voter could go to a website, type in the code on the coupon and check to see that their votes were recorded correctly. Or if you like crypto, just run votes+ballot_serial_number+voter_provided_passphrase through a digest algo and then publish the whole list of hashes. The voter could then calculate the same hash with the same data and check to see that it's found within the list. The blockchain voting patent is a case of "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, then baffle them with bullshit." It's a shiny object that doesn't address the real problem.