I distrust any blanket assertion that such things are "technologically impossible." I'd agree to "highly improbable", given the ridiculous frequency with which consumers' or citizens' private data is regularly leaked, by corporations and government agencies alike. And given the stupidly insecure and inaccurate electronic voting machines we've seen before, I'd say it's probably "impossible" for some companies to create a secure system.
But properly working, secure authentication and crypto is a thing. It's
You are completely missing the point. All the cryptography and the blockchains and the secure protocols in the world can not detect if someone is standing behind the computer with a wad of cash (vote buying) or brass knuckles (coercion) and checking that you are voting right.
One of the core features of the secret ballot is the voting booth, where the voter is alone to do the final choice, with official oversight.
Of course, the privacy of the voting booth is not perfect, it is weakened by all sorts of featur
You are completely missing the point. All the cryptography and the blockchains and the secure protocols in the world can not detect if someone is standing behind the computer with a wad of cash (vote buying) or brass knuckles (coercion) and checking that you are voting right.
Indeed. Internet voting is in reality giving spousal abusers a double vote.
Indeed. I should have been more explicit in my message: the wad of cash and the brass knuckles were colorful examples, but the real threat comes from peer pressure within the family, even more so because it is most often implicit.
(There is a scene in an Astérix comic book: the village must vote between its current (male) chief and a woman; the Druid explains the secret ballot procedure, the woman candidate proposes a show of hand, and then a show of hand to decide if the actual vote will be by a show o
On top of that it isn't sufficient to have the traditional voting booths and give the alternative of an internet vote since the abused then can be forced to use the internet vote. The anonymity needs to be forced upon the voter.
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"Technologically impossible?" (Score:1)
I distrust any blanket assertion that such things are "technologically impossible." I'd agree to "highly improbable", given the ridiculous frequency with which consumers' or citizens' private data is regularly leaked, by corporations and government agencies alike. And given the stupidly insecure and inaccurate electronic voting machines we've seen before, I'd say it's probably "impossible" for some companies to create a secure system.
But properly working, secure authentication and crypto is a thing. It's
You are missing the point (Score:5, Insightful)
You are completely missing the point. All the cryptography and the blockchains and the secure protocols in the world can not detect if someone is standing behind the computer with a wad of cash (vote buying) or brass knuckles (coercion) and checking that you are voting right.
One of the core features of the secret ballot is the voting booth, where the voter is alone to do the final choice, with official oversight.
Of course, the privacy of the voting booth is not perfect, it is weakened by all sorts of featur
Re:You are missing the point (Score:5, Insightful)
You are completely missing the point. All the cryptography and the blockchains and the secure protocols in the world can not detect if someone is standing behind the computer with a wad of cash (vote buying) or brass knuckles (coercion) and checking that you are voting right.
Indeed. Internet voting is in reality giving spousal abusers a double vote.
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Indeed. I should have been more explicit in my message: the wad of cash and the brass knuckles were colorful examples, but the real threat comes from peer pressure within the family, even more so because it is most often implicit.
(There is a scene in an Astérix comic book: the village must vote between its current (male) chief and a woman; the Druid explains the secret ballot procedure, the woman candidate proposes a show of hand, and then a show of hand to decide if the actual vote will be by a show o
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On top of that it isn't sufficient to have the traditional voting booths and give the alternative of an internet vote since the abused then can be forced to use the internet vote.
The anonymity needs to be forced upon the voter.