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Old 12-16-2016, 09:57 AM  
rowan
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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam View Post
I am not sure that would work out ...
Problem is if there is some inside job "hacking."
Deleting the votes

Australia Post details plan to use blockchain for voting | ZDNet
This actually looks reasonably well thought out, rather than a "because...BLOCKCHAIN!" argument. Effectively they're giving each citizen coins to spend on their votes, and those transactions are incorporated into the blockchain.

I can see one fundamental problem, and it's a biggie: voting will no longer be anonymous, since every citizen will be assigned a unique private key. The government will also have a copy of this private key, so they (and anyone else with access to the stash of assigned keys) can see exactly who any given citizen voted for.
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