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sarbaz on July 29, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Happened with West Virginia’s Blockchain Voti...

You should check out Threeballot for a simple counterexample. The idea is that you xor together 3 ballots when you vote, but one of the three ballots is published. You have a 1/3 chance of catching manipulation.

TurningCanadian on July 29, 2019 | [–]

That's pretty neat. Are you aware of the weakness though?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreeBallot#Broken_Encryption

RL_Quine on July 29, 2019 | [–]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Voting

Helios does it far better, and way before all of this "blockchain" hype, no cryptocurrency required.

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