67% of Americans worry leaders pressuring officials to alter election results

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A_D_E_P_T•about 3 hours ago

This may unironically be the best application for the Blockchain. Vote on permissioned-node-only chain --> 30 seconds where you can verify how your vote was recorded --> Vote anonymized but not stripped of all data --> a quorum of state/provincial election boards can audit the results as adversarially as they'd like. This probably needs to happen, as we're fast entering the "governments are just making things up and/or banning parties they don't like" phase.

codedokode•about 2 hours ago

With in-person voting you can see the voters and see that they are real people. With electronic voting, all you see is records in a blockchain, how can you be sure that they are cast by humans and not an AI-powered script? Or how can you be sure that when you click a button in a voting app, the vote is not changed in the process and your choice not reported to the government? Electronic voting systems are typically closed-source and server infrastructure not available for inspection.

Also one doesn't need to be a programmer to monitor paper voting.

Also, I do not see how blockchain can be used here. Are you suggesting that anyone, including foreign governments, can launch a node and "mine" votes? And whoever has more computing power, has more votes, like in Bitcoin?

jqpabc123•about 4 hours ago

Welcome to fascism, America.

67% of Americans probably don't even know what this is.

Hint: It's when one person "dictates" who you can trade with and influences the price you pay for products. And attempts to extend this solitary influence to elections and control of the military.

behole•about 1 hour ago

Tacking this on here for even more confirmation https://public.websites.umich.edu/~rsc/Editorials/fascism.ht...

67% of Americans worry leaders pressuring officials to alter election results

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