Posted on 12/14/2021 6:56:27 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
The U.S. Postal Service pursued a project to build and secretly test a blockchain-based mobile phone voting system before the 2020 election, experimenting with a technology that the government’s own cybersecurity agency says can’t be trusted to securely handle ballots.
Matt Masterson, who was then a senior adviser to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the federal government’s chief liaison to state and local election officials, said he was never aware of the Postal Service program while in office.
CISA declined to comment for this story.
The Postal Service was awarded a public patent for the concept in August 2020, but had not previously revealed that it built a prototype system or tested it.
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A very industrious bunch.
Operation Sea-Spray was a 1950 U.S. Navy secret Biological warfare experiment didn't kill that many. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray
The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis a hundred or so maybe died? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
The covid vaccine studies... no one knows nothing?...
Blockchain for voting would actually be fine. People need to be careful about not confusing “blockchain” with “crypto.” They are related, but not the same thing.
Blockchain voting would be publicly available, perfectly auditable, and immutable—meaning no one would be able to “hack” the results.
The problem would be issuing individuals their “key.” If you cannot expect people to have IDs when they vote, you really cannot expect them to keep a QR code or 24 word seed phrase.
Its a fine idea. Not sure if it would be easy to implement.
Why would they have anything at all to do with voting?????... 🤔
No wonder it takes so long to get our mail.
Maybe they should concentrate on mail instead of politics.
Plus, many Obama phones are out there, some people have six or more!.......... 😏
The USPS can barely deliver the mail in 5 days. They frequently put it in the wrong box in my neighborhood. And they want to run elections?
And you thought all those price increases and Fed Budget gifts were to pay for overtime....
“They frequently put it in the wrong box in my neighborhood.”
Our neighbors have concluded that dyslexia must be a job requirement for a letter carrier position.
I thought elections were handled at the state level?
As far as I know, the federal government has no role in elections. Except when they decide they want to.
” If you cannot expect people to have IDs when they vote, you really cannot expect them to keep a QR code or 24 word seed phrase.
Its a fine idea. Not sure if it would be easy to implement.”
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The difference is that democrats actually don’t have the expectation that everyone needs an ID because having an ID is difficult. Democrats object to the idea of having an ID to vote because it makes fraud more difficult.
Having a QR code or a code number is exploitable just like mailed out ballots are exploitable. If democrats/frauster operatives use the QR code or seed first, then the voter is stuck submitting a provisional ballot, at best
Not sure they are the best organization to do the R&D for a cutting edge trusted e-voting system.
It’s not tied to the phone. It’s tied to the voter. Of course the voter list needs to be kept clean.
As I wrote—technology wise it would be better. Getting to that point is where the problems arise.
I know. I know! Let’s put the nuclear codes on Mrs. Bill Clinton’s cellphone. What could go wrong?
Yes…that is right.
It’s a mechanism to make sure the votes are immutable. But, getting to that point is where the devil is in the details.
Unless they drastically changed the test….that’s not how it was. When I took the test there were tons of memory questions.
Of course, you are thinking this was done by mail handlers. That’s not who was doing this.
Ever wonder how a billion pieces of mail get from one place to another every day? The guys who design those systems are the ones working on this stuff.
I work in blockchain (non-cryptocurrency applications) and I've been thinking about this problem on the side for a while now. I have some ideas that use exotic mathematics, but they need to be fleshed out.
Excellent post. Blockchain will be a part of the future in many industries and services. I have high hopes that it will be used for voting.
I would want people to have a smart-card based voter registration card (like the DOD CAC card, or similar). The key lives in the chip and is not extractable in the course of normal use. This means that the card HAS to be physically present to sign the ballot. Obviously, you add other mechanisms, like a photo, to make sure the card holder is the real voter.
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I track my package going from PN to TX to OR to FL only to get to me in Montana, and they are doing this? WTF??
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