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+ <div id="comment_body_57266476"><blockquote><div><p>To say blockchain is inherently unsafe is like saying software is inherently unsafe</p></div></blockquote><p>Oh, you are so close to a breakthrough.</p><p>When it comes to voting, blockchain, like software, IS inherently unsafe. If the main goal for voting security is maintaining the people's confidence in an election, the only system that will meet that standard is a system where people are actually keeping an eye on one another. And I mean physically watching one another. And that's the system we had in place before the advent of voting machines and election software. You had a room full of election judges from both sides, and they sat side-by-side checking in voters as they approached the voting booth and physically watched them put the ballot in the box. When the votes were counted, there was a whole bunch of people from both parties standing around keeping a close eye. When the ballots were sent for storage, one person from each party rode in the truck to drop them off after sealing the container - together - and signing off.</p><p>It was trust, but verify. Was it possible to jigger with an election like that? Of course. But you had a list of names of people you could hold accountable at every step in the process. Electronic voting will never, ever be trusted. That is the effect of transparency.</p></div>
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+ <div id="comment_body_57266482"><p>They key statement in the finding that most technology solutions fail to solve is this:</p><p>"Such systems are intended to *assure* voters that their vote was recorded accurately."</p><p>In the end, paper ballots may seem inefficient from a processing perspective, but that inefficiency becomes inherently difficult to tamper with and builds in systems for checks and recounts. The argument here is that blockchain is vulnerable before the data is stored in the blockchain, at the UI and the machine level, and blockchain th<span class="substr"> </span></p></div>
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+ <div id="comment_body_57266484">Gimme a break. Use paper. Computers will be better tools for tabulating and processing the votes after they are cast, but it's tough to beat paper for a recount. Even paper has it's flaws, but the hand waving crypto-bullshit is pathetic "Oh but this counter signature will detect if the previous initialization vector was properly zeroed inside of the S-Box" *rolls eyes*. KISS baby. Things don't get more secure by making them more complex and I can't think of any way to make something more complex than to introduce computers. Computers are great at some things, ideal for some tasks: not for voting. They suck at that.</div>
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+Make a simple mark on a paper ballot indicating your vote, fold it, put it in a box.
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+Now theoretically you could bribe people who do the counting, but you'd have to bribe a *LOT* of people to make any kind of difference because each individual ballot box with the folded ballots contains but a tiny fraction of the number of votes, and nobody ever counts the ballots from more than one or sometimes two different boxes.</p></div>
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+<script type="text/javascript">
+var topBannerViewed = false;
+if($('#div-gpt-ad-728x90_a').length > 0 && window.outerWidth >= 1070 && !isAdBlockActive){
+ $(window).scroll(function(){
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+ $('.adwrap-unviewed').each(function(){
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+ if($(this).hasClass('railad')) {
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+ navOffset += $('.adwrap').outerHeight();
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+ $('#slashboxes').css('top', 0).css('position','fixed').css('right',13);
+ } else {
+ $('#slashboxes').removeAttr('style');
+ }
+ }
+ return;
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+ if(y >= topPixels && y >= navOffset){
+ $(this).addClass(cls);
+ $(this).removeClass('adwrap');
+ if(cls == 'adwrap-sticky') { //top banner
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+ $('#slashboxes').css('top',$(this).outerHeight() || 0).css('position','fixed').css('right',13);
+ }
+ if(topBannerViewed) {
+ console.log('hereeee');
+ $('#slashboxes').css('top', 0).css('position','fixed').css('right',13);
+ }
+ }else{
+ $(this).removeClass(cls);
+ $(this).addClass(toggleCls);
+ $('#slashboxes').removeAttr('style');
+ }
+ });
+ if($('.adwrap-viewed-banner').length > 0){
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+ $('.adwrap-viewed-banner').removeClass('adwrap-unviewed').removeClass('adwrap-sticky').addClass('adwrap');
+ }
+ if($('.adwrap-viewed-railad').length > 0){
+ $('.adwrap-viewed-railad').removeClass('adwrap-unviewed').removeClass('adwrap-railad-sticky');
+ $('#slashboxes').removeAttr('style');
+ }
+ });
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+</script>
+
+<!-- Piwik -->
+<script type="text/javascript">
+ var _paq = _paq || [];
+ _paq.push(["setCookieDomain", "*.slashdot.org"]);
+ _paq.push(['trackPageView']);
+ _paq.push(['enableLinkTracking']);
+function initPiwikAndNels() {
+ (function() {
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+ _paq.push(['setTrackerUrl', u+'sd.php']);
+ _paq.push(['setSiteId', 40]);
+ var d=document, g=d.createElement('script'), s=d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
+ g.type='text/javascript'; g.async=true; g.defer=true; g.src=u+'sd.js'; s.parentNode.insertBefore(g,s);
+ })();
+
+ if(window.location.pathname == '/'){
+ var nelId = (location.search.split('nel_id=')[1] || '').split('&')[0];
+ var url = '/ajax.pl?op=nel';
+ if(nelId){
+ url += '&nel_id='+nelId;
+ }
+ $.ajax({
+ url: url,
+ success: function(html){
+ $('#firehoselist article').eq(1).after(html);
+ }
+ });
+ }
+ //announcement NEL
+ if(document.getElementById('announcementText')){
+ $('#announcementText').hide();
+ var hlUrl = '/ajax.pl?op=hl_nel';
+ if(nelId){
+ hlUrl += '&nel_id='+nelId;
+ }
+ $.ajax({
+ url: hlUrl,
+ success: function(html){
+ if(html.length < 10){
+ $('#announcementText').show();
+ return;
+ }
+ $('#announcementText').html(html).show();
+ },
+ error: function () {
+ $('#announcementText').show();
+ }
+ });
+ }
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+bizx.cmp.ifConsent('publisher', ['storage', 'measurement'], initPiwikAndNels);
+</script>
+
+
+<script type="text/javascript">
+_linkedin_data_partner_id = "113712";
+</script><script type="text/javascript">
+if (!window.is_euro_union) {
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+<!-- Datonics -->
+<script async type="text/javascript" src="//ads.pro-market.net/ads/scripts/site-143573.js"></script>
+ <script id="after-content" type="text/javascript">
+(function( $, fn, console ){
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+ <script type='text/javascript'>
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+ window.scrollTo(0,sessionStorage.scrollPos);
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+ });
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+ $(function(){
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+ });
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+ // delete sessionStorage.scrollPos;
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+ window.onpopstate=function() {
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+ </script>
+
+
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+ <!-- 1x1 story page -->
+ <div id='div-gpt-ad-1x1'><script type='text/javascript'>
+googletag.cmd.push(function(){
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+
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+ <script type="text/javascript">
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+ window._taboola = window._taboola || [];
+ _taboola.push({flush: true});
+ }
+ </script>
+
+ </body>
+ </html>
+
+
+ <!-- footer type=current end -->
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