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Voting seems like one of the few problems that blockchain is actually the solution for.

• Sammi 11mo ago
  Nope. Blockchain has no anonymity.
  • fancyswimtime 11mo ago
    wouldn't that be a feature in this case?
    • konimex 11mo ago
      Not really. Your ballot should be secret, which goes against blockchain, I guess.
      • ehnto 11mo ago
        The blockchain doesn't require your ID, just the voting station ID.
        • Sammi 11mo ago
          Any id can be correlated.
    • kaibee 11mo ago
      Anonymous voting means that you can't sell your vote. Like, if I pay you $5 to vote for X, but I can't actually verify that you voted for X and not Y, then I wouldn't bother trying. Or if I'm your boss and I want you to vote for X... etc.
  • johnsonelephant 11mo ago
    Monero demonstrates a solution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_signature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_signature)
  • ehnto 11mo ago
    You don't have to attribute any name to the transaction, just a voting booth ID and the vote. The actual benefit is just that it is hard to tamper and easy to trace where tampering happened. But I still prefer the paper vote and I usually a blockchain apathetic.