Elon Musk calls for an end to electronic voting.
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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.
Think of a blockchainas a PO box system, or a storage facility. Everyone has the key to their own box, or storage, so only they check and see what's inside. You can put a coin in there, or a ballot, doesn't matter.
The whole system can check and tally all of the ballots from all of those PO boxes / storage units, but cannot modify them. Imagine a glass window into the PO box, by the computer forgets what that box had in it after it tallies what it saw.
And the system shows how it tallies up said votes, it's completely transparent in the way that math is done. This is why there's the "crypto" part of "cryptocurrency," it's specifically referencing the cryptography involved in those calculations. If anything interfered with the count, it'd be immediately visible to everyone since the "hash" or "count" would be corrupted. Everyone would instantly see it's corrupted. Like seeing that a master key was used on a unit, but it pings the owner immediately.
So, we have a voting system that the users themselves own and are in control of (these are called wallets in the crypto space), the PO boxes. We have a system which automatically tallies all votes made by those with x metadata (say only those boxes with an ID attached). We can then vote, and verify the count, while ensuring there is no tampering with the votes or the count system.
You could add metadata to each vote based on ID, so state votes and federal vtoes would be quantifiable depending on what you're asking for. "Who voted for who in... Arkansas?" and a display of the votes would come up. No fake votes could be applied because this system requires a valid ID to do so.
Sorry if this is complicated or difficult ot understand. The most basic way to learn about this would be to learn how Bitcoin or other Cryptos store their transactions, blocks, etc. Those are the "reciept lists." Dominion was a centralized service, so back end tomfoolery could happen, because no one could check their work. With decentralized ledgers, everyone can check the work.
Another example via analogy. Imagine a computer system, that when you asked "what did so and so vote for?" the system couldn't answer. But when asked "did so and so vote for x?" it wouldn't answer, it would simply tally the truth of the answer. This is kinda how cryptographic systems work.