Somewhere along the lines there won’t be block chain. At that point the system can be hacked. If you go to a national system all you’re doing is making it so that instead of voter having to be done all over the place it’s in one centralized location. Your BEST case scenario is you have a completely hackable voter database that feeds into your supposedly unhackable block chain that feeds into a completely hackable voting count. Even if claims of the perfection of BCT are accurate (not proven) if you feed it garbage in the voter database it doesn’t even need to be hacked, because you’ve setup a system that WELCOMES bad data.
You control your private key and that is what is used to vote. Some malware could possibly decrypt and sign with your private key or capture it after you decrypt it in the interval where is clear. But that problem, protecting the private key, is being solved by the cryptocurrency people.
Once your signed transaction with your vote is on the blockchain it can't be hacked. The blockchain is immutable, can't be changed or altered. It is also public, although for privacy, the validation of the vote count would be complicated.
Your BEST case scenario is you have a completely hackable voter database that feeds i
Thats true, although that's registration, not a database. There is no database, but there are addresses of voters that are allocated one vote a piece. If someone impersonates several people and gets several addresses that is a registration problem. Blockchain does not solve that. But keep in mind there is no database to hack. The allocation of credentials to vote is on the blockchain which cannot be hacked.
Yes, it’s true that the ‘system’ (meaning electronic voting machines) can be hacked. Now you’re catching on.
But you’re wrong when you say there won’t be a blockchain at some point. That statement you made reveals you do not know how the blockchains work.
Each node in the blockchain receives data from a machine or a hand tally continuously in realtime so they can be cross-checked. The hand count can tally say 10 votes and be entered on a public data node whereas the electronic machine total of the same votes can also be transmitted to another node. If they don’t agree, the counting stops and an investigation is made. And this can be done continuously or at any random time. Thus, a hacked machine can never know how to be in sync with the hand check.
Then extending to uploaded totals to district-wide or county-wide, the conforming totals are stored on many nodes that must all agree or the uploads are stopped and an investigation is made.
Block-Chain Tech catches inconsistencies immediately and stops the process dead in its tracks.
Here’s another explanation of how it works:
https://followmyvote.com/online-voting-technology/blockchain-technology/