Ask HN: Future of electronic voting, Blockchain plus identity protection?

3 points by grif-fin 9 years ago | 5 comments

Having in mind the recent events with the US election and everything that comes with the classic paper election (result counting, protection against fraud, multiple counting, costs) and the final always unhappy voters who believe something went wrong, do we have all the technologies to go electronic voting all the way?

I know followmyvote.com has already started with this. Using blockchain to keep all the votes open to everyone tracking the election.

Does HN think we can overcome the identity theft with a bundle of technologies like finger and iris detection plus a pass and blockchain combined to enable electronic voting?

Findeton 9 years ago |

Blockchain doesn't really help much in the realm of electronic voting. It's just not needed for anything. You can have secure electronic voting without Blockchain tech.

BTW: https://github.com/agoravoting

grif-fin 9 years ago | |

Isn't Blockchain the core of Agora Voting?

https://tinyurl.com/zdsdkxr

https://tinyurl.com/j8yseuj

Findeton 9 years ago | | |

No, it's not (btw I work at Agora Voting, now called nVotes), although we were the first to suggest it, in the end the blockchain was never introduced to Agora Voting.

The blockchain has some interesting properties that can be used, for sure, but in reality these properties would be used only in one module of the voting system, not at the core.