Timeline for Why do people criticize and mistrust the e-voting based block chain?
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| Mar 30, 2020 at 18:15 | comment | added | Captain Man | "Blockchain-based solutions that [...] prevent double voting by an individual, do not necessarily facilitate vote selling" -- Using demographics about how certain populations vote in general, couldn't people use that knowledge to pay people to vote (regardless of how they actually do) and know within a certain range how likely it is they will vote favorably? As a more concrete example, in states with a weak majority in favor of party A, couldn't party B pay demographics that usually vote for party B to vote? Sure, they may vote for A but I imagine you could narrow it down quite a bit. | |
| Mar 30, 2020 at 16:44 | history | edited | fgrieu♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 30, 2020 at 11:11 | history | edited | fgrieu♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 30, 2020 at 11:01 | comment | added | fgrieu♦ | Both electronic and traditional voting are vulnerable to fraud, or/and their results can be ignored. I argue that with traditional voting this is harder to achieve on a massive scale and undetected. In my view, the risk of a centralized and undetected fraud introduced by electronic voting offsets the advantage it has of making fraud harder at a decentralized level. Note: a moderator has kindly repositioned the above comment, originally posted (likely by the OP) as an answer and under (& because of) a different login; that's bad. | |
| Mar 30, 2020 at 10:48 | comment | added | Maarten Bodewes♦ | @fgrieu "All users may comment on their own posts and any answers to their own questions." | |
| Mar 30, 2020 at 8:35 | comment | added | jack | I think the voting system will never be transparent in some counties, let's take RD. Congo as an example where the result was altered after using an electronic voting system in December 2018, I mean 50% electronic because voters used the machine to vote and inserted the printed bulletins in the ballot as well. The transfer of power was negotiated even if the number of bulletins was counted physically and electronically. Electronic or non-electronic voting both present some downsides and strong points. It's a dilemma. A 100% transparent and secure system doesn't exist. | |
| Mar 30, 2020 at 7:32 | comment | added | István András Seres | In addition to this great answer, I just want to further elaborate on trustless vote selling/buying already pointed out by @fgrieu. One can imagine a smart contract which pays for certain votes in a totally transparent, trustless and automatic way. Hence, in this context also vote buying made a lot easier and cheaper. Highly recommended, great blog post by Phil Daian: hackingdistributed.com/2018/07/02/on-chain-vote-buying | |
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| Mar 30, 2020 at 7:10 | history | edited | fgrieu♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 30, 2020 at 7:05 | history | answered | fgrieu♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |