West Virginia to use block-chain mobile phone voting for midterm elections

[Thomas45]

https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/06/technology/mobile-voting-west-virginia-voatz/index.html

And it's bad.

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1026614848082329600

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1026616922752929792

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1026611548545003520

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1026618655482826752

[Borealis]

This will only be for overseas West Virginians in the military , so really they could just hit up the census bureau and military records to check if a suspicious number of people voted, heck ask them.

Kneejerk time, the people selling out democracy through incompetence should be kicked out of office and permanently barred.

[frog]

So they're replacing a broken electronic system with an even more broken electronic system now with shiny (misused) meme tech

nice

[MissingNoGuy55]

the technophobes and boomers running the show can't be trusted with anything electronic-based. unless it's pen and paper, they'll think you're just an "egghead" and smarter than you

[Sableye]

uh so what's wrong with the totally secure paper system we have today?

[Borealis]

It's too secure for the GOP.

[Swilly]

Everything has to be TECHNOLOGY because that's the FUTURE.

[BepisMax]

It's not even misused, it's flat out not used. They're just treating it as a marketing wank word

[proboardslol]

Aw sweet this is gonna be good for bitcoin

[Joazzz]

it's not vulnerable to convenient cyberattacks.

[BepisMax]

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/238785/c0d9f6c4-a051-4f39-8231-2d1ea80a6a1a/IMG_20180807_215231.jpg

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/238785/4138fa4b-c476-4305-855e-9d3391513470/IMG_20180807_215322.jpg

I sent this to a colleague who is doing some really cool research + startup stuff with blockchain tech. He had this to say.

The point about homomorphic encryption is quite interesting. It's certainly one way of having an publicly-verifiable secret ballot.