Dominion Voting machine and system in action. It'll even scan a batch of blank ballots and vote for whoever you tell it to!
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Blockchain needs to be done in a way that the vote cannot be traced to the voter. It must remain anonymous. If the voter can confirm how he voted, he can sell his vote with his receipt. This will immediately ruin any election. If the government can track it, a hostile government can track down dissenters and supporters of the "evil" candidate and add them to the naughty list.
I've got another red pill for you then. In the 1970's as we got new technology, we began recording and publishing congressional votes for the public. So the public could now see democracy in action and hold leaders accountable! Great right?
Nope, that was the day we sold our country to the highest bidding lobbyist. Before that point lobbyists had less influence. A congressman could accept the lobbyists money, and simply vote his conscience, and lie to the lobbyist that he really tried to push the bill through. Since you couldn't guarantee a vote even with a payment, people were not willing to spend as much in lobbying.
Nowadays? Lobbyists hand congressman their bills and tell them that if they don't vote for it, they're not getting money. They can now confirm their vote and buy it! There is a really good video on the subject, but youtube algorithms seem to be hiding it.
This explains the Gilens flat line.
"The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender."
Edit: found the video, but it's a long one. The cardboard box reform
Absolutely, vote anonimity must be preserved and I think it's possible.
Traceability for example should kick in ONLY if votes get contested in a way that requires an audit.
All the workers would see while counting is a fingerprint in the candidate box and random encryption dots.
Impossible to match it to a voter with the naked eye. The use of any scanner or electronic device other than cameras during the counting process should be banned
The blockchain traceability should be for chain of custody purposes only, within an internal offline system, with a complex encryption key to protect it from any unwarranted intrusion. Once decoded, ballot traceability could look something like a serial number. Example
IL C 28 - 0001 to 5000
Illinois (IL) gave custody to Chicago (C) Voting Station (28) 5000 individually numbered ballots
Again, this is all encrypted. Workers don't knows what number is the ballot they're handing out, the stacks come pre shuffled, not in order.
Voting night should be a very simple process that can't be fucked up.
Voter ID gets scanned upon entrance
Voter proceeds to ballot desk where individual ballot is matched with voter ID
System gives green light to access voting booth
Voter puts fingerprint on chosen candidate
Voter puts folded ballot in a box guarded by the military, who will also observe all the counting process until certification and results call to central command, a process that shouldn't take more than 5/6 hours
Only the decentralized, offline local system has the voter ID and ballot matched and accessing that info would require official audit.
I'm not a tech expert but I imagine this would make cheating very, very hard. And if the fingerprint doesn't match voter ID or ballot number, the vote is invalid. Period.
Responsibilities can be traced back because of chain of custody, diversified system made of many small stations avoid giant fuck ups like invalidanting millions of votes
It would be great if we could trust the government to do the right thing, but I think we've recently learned the lesson that we shouldn't. It's better to simply not give them the opportunity to do otherwise.
All they need to do is scan the ballot through a machine that can read the blockchain, and everyone's anonymity is compromised, as that blockchain is already associated with an ID. This could be done quickly and in secret without the public's knowledge or consent. As we already know, this government of ours takes every opportunity, even illegally, to collect all known information on it's citizens in a pursuit of power.
Obama already weaponized the IRS against political opponents. These lists that can be made from this data will only lead to worse outcomes in the end. Even the knowledge alone that your vote is not anonymous to the government will affect votes and be unhealthy for a republic.
You raise very good points, I can see how vote anonimity is worth more than a completely fraud-proof system.
Traceability is a double edged sword and it could very well be we can't have the cake and eat too
Blockchain basically prints a unique code for every ballot, it becomes impossible for anyone to print extra ballots because it's impossible for them too add new ballots to the chain, so it's easy to detect the fakes and the ones sent across county lines