Cryptography-Based Voting and The US Elections: The Reality

Written by aberke | Published 2020/02/12
Tech Story Tags: cryptography | blockchain | voting | security | hackernoon-top-story | cryptography-top-story | blockchain-top-story | privacy-top-story

TLDR Cryptographers and technology experts have developed a variety of methods to make voting systems secure, transparent, and openly auditable. Unfortunately, presidential candidates and election officials have been fooled into promoting and piloting problematic blockchain-based mobile voting systems, which experts have warned against. The benefits of increasing access to voting are lost if voting systems are then hacked, votes are tampered with, or if voters do not trust election outcomes. We can have more than just the transparency, verifiability, and security of elections.via the TL;DR App

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Published by HackerNoon on 2020/02/12