Secure Voting with Blockchain/Cryptography

[beer (Hanan Beer)]

It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.

There can be no democracy without a democratic process.
Luckily, we have exactly all the right tools for secure voting today.

For deeper dive into technical details I recommend reading Vitalik Buterin’s blog post:

Some ways to use ZK-SNARKs for privacy

The same cryptographic tools have proven successful as they already secure hundreds of billions of dollars in live protocols, and several trillion dollars secured by blockchain overall.

It’s time to move from “those who count the votes decide everything” to those who vote decide everything.

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references to related (but different) blockchain policies:

Approval Voting

Approval Voting allows each voter to support as many candidates as they wish. There is no ranking, and the candidate with the most votes wins. This eliminates the spoiler effect, and also changes the role of parties and primaries. It could elevate candidates who appeal to a broad spectrum of the population. It would also generate a result that indicated who had earned a lot of trust over their career, potentially leading to useful roles for the top runners-up. This is in contrast to the plu…

Put The Entire US Budget On Blockchain

“I’m going to put the entire U.S. budget on blockchain so that any American — every American can look at every budget item in the entire budget anytime they want 24 hours a day,” -Kennedy The public accounting of spending would theoretically allow more transparency and accountability into how the government spends taxpayer dollars. “We’re gonna have 300 million eyeballs on our budget, and if somebody is spending $16,000 for a toilet seat, everybody’s gonna know about it,” Kennedy said, appeari…

Blockchain Audit

A blockchain based crypto system would be used to track all employees in D.C.’s spending and their votes. This would discourage backroom deals with special interests. They will be watched by an INDEPENDENT body separate from D.C. Those people in the body will have term limits and elections. In turn, the government will also audit that body. Make sure the system is not manipulated which would turn the U.S. into Russia.

Blockchain for transparency

Utilize blockchain technology for transparency in elections, and to allow us the choice of where our tax dollars go.

[RandomPerson]

You actually don’t even need to store the data on the blockchain.

Take a look at True Vote.
https://truevote.org/

TrueVote

[beer (Hanan Beer)]

Yes blockchain isn’t strictly necessary, membership proofs could be enough - but if two votes are sent by the same signer then you have byzantine fault.

It could live on a dedicated blockchain though.