At the end of the day we can never fully solve the problem if we want to keep everyone’s votes anonymous (which I fully support). I think Voter ID will go a long way toward solving parts of the problem, but we also need to be demanding more than just voter ID. We need to be demanding some sort of verification/blockchain type system that allows everyone to check votes in real time as they come in, with DECENTRALIZATION being a key component (which is why I mention blockchain, although I’m not an expert). Having the system decentralized helps maintain integrity, and having it digitized with some type of anonymized pins/keys/hashes could allow for people to check their own votes to ensure that they indeed were counted and awarded appropriately. Like I said, im not an expert in how exactly it would work, but we need to demand something like this. Hopefully we could get it, but if not we’ve potentially positioned ourselves for others to compromise on voter ID. This is how the Dems operate and it seems to work every damn time unfortunately.
It’s not possible to have both privacy and integrity. I’ve thought about it for a while and I don’t see how it could be done. Verification itself necessitates connecting a vote back to a person somehow.
A blockchain is a smart idea. You could generate random ids when recording a vote and let people verify their vote by that id.
The problem is how do you verify that those voters were legitimate? You can’t have any identifying information on the blockchain since it is public, so the only way to do it would be to verify eligibility beforehand through voter id.
Or you could have it as a secondary system that lets you compare automated records on the blockchain with the normal tallies to check for fraud.
At the end of the day we can never fully solve the problem if we want to keep everyone’s votes anonymous (which I fully support). I think Voter ID will go a long way toward solving parts of the problem, but we also need to be demanding more than just voter ID. We need to be demanding some sort of verification/blockchain type system that allows everyone to check votes in real time as they come in, with DECENTRALIZATION being a key component (which is why I mention blockchain, although I’m not an expert). Having the system decentralized helps maintain integrity, and having it digitized with some type of anonymized pins/keys/hashes could allow for people to check their own votes to ensure that they indeed were counted and awarded appropriately. Like I said, im not an expert in how exactly it would work, but we need to demand something like this. Hopefully we could get it, but if not we’ve potentially positioned ourselves for others to compromise on voter ID. This is how the Dems operate and it seems to work every damn time unfortunately.
It’s not possible to have both privacy and integrity. I’ve thought about it for a while and I don’t see how it could be done. Verification itself necessitates connecting a vote back to a person somehow.
A blockchain is a smart idea. You could generate random ids when recording a vote and let people verify their vote by that id.
The problem is how do you verify that those voters were legitimate? You can’t have any identifying information on the blockchain since it is public, so the only way to do it would be to verify eligibility beforehand through voter id.
Or you could have it as a secondary system that lets you compare automated records on the blockchain with the normal tallies to check for fraud.