Comment Comment by danuker I am not familiar with Debian's practices, but electronic voting can't work for a nation because:- centralization (there must be a central, corruptible place where the voters are authenticated or the votes are counted)- software is untrustable: https://www.win.tue.nl/%7Eaeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.htmlThe USA has had a Diebold voting scandal. Other countries are using a paper-based voting process which can be supervised by third parties.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Election_Solutions#Sec...Relevant watching: Tom Scott: Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Ideahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQsOne possible solution could be ZCash ( https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/585.pdf ) but it has had its own problems ( https://www.coindesk.com/zcash-team-reveals-it-fixed-a-catas... ). parent danuker 4 years ago
- centralization (there must be a central, corruptible place where the voters are authenticated or the votes are counted)
- software is untrustable: https://www.win.tue.nl/%7Eaeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html
The USA has had a Diebold voting scandal. Other countries are using a paper-based voting process which can be supervised by third parties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Election_Solutions#Sec...
Relevant watching: Tom Scott: Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs
One possible solution could be ZCash ( https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/585.pdf ) but it has had its own problems ( https://www.coindesk.com/zcash-team-reveals-it-fixed-a-catas... ).