AUTHOR WSJ Noted. Published Oct. 6, 2020 3:18 pm ET Mobile voting would make the process faster, easier and more accessible for most people and several mobile-voting pilot programs have been launched with the expectation that over the coming years, the generations that have grown up using smartphones will demand services for voting as well. But the effort to get people voting on their phones also presents new concerns about privacy and security.
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2. Critics worry about privacy and security. Some critics worry that taking voting out of a physical location could allow voters to be coerced by someone looking over their shoulder and influencing or even buying votes. The use of third party involvement in systems could also open up doors for malicious actors to force their way through, says a group from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Internet Policy Research Initiative.
3. Blockchain may not solve online-voting issues. The basic idea of a blockchain is to create an open ledger in which a series of transactions are stored publicly for anybody to verify, while protecting the identity of the individual users. For voting, that should result in a system where anybody could verify the validity of the election, while individual voters’ choices are kept private.
4. No system is currently viewed as secure enough to be trusted for a general election. For it to take off, mobile voting must win the trust of election officials, voters and candidates. “The goal is to convince the loser that they lost,” says Michael Specter, a researcher at the Internet Policy Research Initiative. “If you can’t do that, it doesn’t matter how much cryptography or research has gone into it.”Copyright ©2020 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Because Facebook and the other social media monsters, have a clean background on privacy and security, right? Smells like a conspiracy to me.. blockchain is the answer!
But what if you don't have an iPhone and have something like an Android. How would you be able to vote? 😉
Introduce your SSN to your iPhone, one verified it’s legit let a random identifier number be assigned to you, once that is done vote, and submit it securely with Face ID. All done anonymously.
better idea: get rid of the the 2 party national system and have us vote on everything all of the time.
No. More polling places, more early voting, more voting by mail. But always always always a paper trail.
You think ?
Yes but too hard to cheat. So we cannot have it!
Not everything is about making things easy or safe. Grow a pair and go vote in person or don’t vote ffs.
Nah we can show up in person. It’s not ordering Chipotle from GrubHub.
by 2050
I realize it was an entire pandemic ago, but did we really already completely forget about the Iowa caucuses?
Hell no
As long as its an option and not the only option....big brother is big enough
Doable
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