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firethief  ·  4013 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bitcoin Could Change Voting the Way It's Changed Money

    Other than trust, which is pretty much the most important aspect of voting. That's essentially my point.

I'm not sure what you mean. A cryptographic approach requires less trust than any other.

    You are mistaken on this point. Because the average voter doesn't understand hashing and data encryption, a candidate need only say "my tally is different than the 'official' one" and the election is called into question.

The average voter needn't know what cryptographic systems are involved any more than they need to know how credit card payments are processed when they're typing in their PIN. Any candidate could claim they've won, but that's just as true now and it's never been a problem, as we don't trust the candidates to do the counting.