USPS Files Patent for a Blockchain-Based Voting System
Am I the only one still against network-based, and to a lesser extent electronic-based, voting?<p>It&#x27;s near impossible to rig or suppress a physical election without a lot of effort, but one person can DDoS an entire network and no one can vote and the whole election needs to be scrapped.<p>Not even the strongest cryptographic or software systems are free from exploits (especially over time) and there&#x27;s no way to be sure the open source code for the system is the same code actually being served on the system.<p>A lot of software has died by its own hubris by assuming their systems are secure and then a single 17 year old on 4chan finds a bug and ruins it all. You can&#x27;t afford for that to happen in an election. Forget hackers, some skilled social engineering gets you the votes of thousands, but you cannot do that in person so easily.<p>I&#x27;m sure the problems have been discussed extensively but other niche problems include lack of availability for rural areas (which has been a huge problem even with paper voting). I think the only reliable voting system at scale is in person.