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The ballot has to be anonymous. And you need to find a way to make the technology available to all.

The anonymity requirement is relatively easy to solve for with either blind signatures or a homomorphic voting scheme. The general availability part is trickier since solving for it is akin to solving for the current issues with voter registration and disenfranchisement. India is having decent success rolling out their UIDAI program, so there's hope on that front, but distribution is the part of the stack that math and technology can't solve for directly.

Do you have a link to a paper about either of those? Last I read they didn't scale well.

I upvoted you for imagining a better voting system. Even though I disagree.

Voting in the USA must be preserve the secret ballot and be publicly verifiable.

I've studied a few crypto voting systems. None so far satisfy these requirements.

Further, any future perfect voting tech will only be provided by vendors, vs done in house, and I oppose the outsourcing of our election administration.

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