Elon Musk calls for an end to electronic voting.
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This is like saying you can never rob a bank because the door of the safe is two feet thick and the lock is unpickable. But people can still rob banks!
Let's assume that blockchain is perfect and there is no way to add or misrepresent the data in there. That is a tall order, but let's move on. How do you count those records? Let's go down the Stalin route: "It is not the people who vote that count but the people who count the votes."
New sample program:
For Each Blockchain_Record
If Candidate Biden or Trump then Add 1 to Temp
Else Add 1 to Candidate_Name
End
Biden = 0.52 * Temp
Trump = Temp - Biden
Print Results
Biden wins by four percentage points and the blockchain was perfect regardless of votes.
The details of that program could be hidden anywhere. It could even delete itself after use. What do all those 350+ Services all do on your Windows PC? What do all the dlls do? How many hidden segments does the disk have? Does inserting a USB stick do more than you might guess?
This link shows the lengths that some will go to and imagine if there was money in it.
Then there are yet more options, suppose, as now, people take local vote tallies to central offices on a portable storage device of some sort. The aggregating of those results could also have corruption built in.
The problem with a computer is that so much is hidden. The Chinese even built hardware bugs into SuperMicro motherboards, for instance.
But in this case the bank is everywhere, and unless you rob every single bank within the "blocktime" you have failed.
This is what the miners do. They replicate and transmit the "reciept list" around the planet to all nodes everywhere. Then one is randomly selected (via mining process) to stamp the block. Tell me how you can predict a compromised player can predict they will be selected when there are millions of millions of miners out there right now?
This code would be transparent to everyone. And they would call it out. Who can "change" the code to be that? You'd have to convince every single node / miner in the network. How are you going to do that?
With Dominion hack, you change one centralized server and all others update. That is not possible with decentralized computing architecture
K I'm starting to think you don't understand what "open source" means.
Those aren't open source. Most blockchains are. I'd be against a closed-source blockchain because it's SOURCE CODE is CLOSED. Whereas OPEN SOURCE is OPEN and visible to everyone.
Man you are really not reading my words at all are you? Your ID is your "NFT" to be able to vote on a matter in a public database. That's it.
Are you suggesting we can trust paper ballots and the people involved more than real cryptography?
It's not with a blockchain because every interaction is immediately auditable.
However, people can see the "reciept" of that program doing harm. And those viruses / bugs are closed source by design.
There is no reason for me to plead with you to understand. I am simply trying to say you have mistaken this technology for what the old CENTRALIZED computer systems have done. Please, if you want to understand, look into DECENTRALIZED and TRUSTLESS systems and atempt to understand them. I understand your concern but frankly you are gravely mistaken as to how this type of technology operates.
Blockchain type systems for voting (have already been proven to work, and are working right now as we speak) could save us from the "trust the ballot counters" nonsense we experienced last time.
I don't think I am the one missing the point here.
I will try and make things simple for you. Imagine the blockchain records indicated that Biden got 100,000 votes and Trump got 200,000. Who won the election?
Biden did by 200,000 votes to 100,000.
See how it works and not a single blockchain record chain was hurt in this example!
What. No.
This doesn't make any sense man. I don't think this is worth discussing with you frankly. We can agree to disagree for various reasons and leave it at that.
“If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.” ― Satoshi Nakamoto
Wait, I think the fog is clearing. I was thinking about storing each separate ballot, however many sheets of paper that is, as a blockchain record but I think you are talking about storing the entire election as a series of blockchain records.
Am I catching up now?
Would you split it by state or just have one federal blockchain database?
If so, I am going to need another think. I apologise for being so slow.