Hacker News Reader

Voting via internet is very dangerous - fortunately we can use the internet to for things better than just voting - like consensus building etc. It is much more difficult to disrupt broad channel communication that the extremely narrow channel of voting.

View on HN

blockchain

Could be used to enforce voter coercion.

Imagine an employer who demands that an employee produce proof that they voted a certain way.

voter coercion is orthogonal to online/offline voting.

No, not really. Some forms of voting facilitate it, while others discourage it.

Voting that is done in person, in private (for instance: voting booths) is less susceptible to coercion than voting which is not done in person (for instance: mail-in). Systems that give out a receipt for the vote placed are also more susceptible to voter coercion, particularly if they are mathematically provable receipts that cannot be fabricated (nearly all "blockchain" proposals).

A voting system should not allow someone to vote twice, and should allow the voter to verify it afterward, but must not allow anyone else to prove what their vote was afterwards or even allow the voter to show it to someone else. Can your one-word system do that?

yes

Reply on news.ycombinator.com