My point is you’re trying to fix the wrong problem and grossly failing to understand what the actual problem is.
People STILL will not be able to see what’s going on in the machines. Hell even election officials don’t see it, they’re just hoping the stuff works as advertised. Every 4 years we see the story “I pushed X but Y blinked”, BCT doesn’t fix that, BCT won’t KNOW they’re fraud votes. It can’t. The touch screen is going to say “vote for Y” and BCT will say “certified” even though the voter will be saying “I pushed X”.
The block chain can’t monitor the RIGHT PART of the machine.
But the moment of voting doesn’t matter. You’re completely not understanding basic software communications. There’s no possible way for the blockchain to know what button was pushed OUTSIDE of being told BY THE SOFTWARE ON THE MACHINE. If the software is lying blockchain’s got no way to know that. It can’t see the inconsistencies, and the poll watchers can’t see the inconsistencies, and there’s nothing to hand count because they don’t make a paper record (or if they do it’s in response to what the touch screen says, which means it matches the data fed to block chain.
Random ballot watching WON’T HELP. There’s nothing for them to watch.
Your link talks entirely about online voting, which has problems I’ve discussed with the other guy, and does not address ANY of the issues I’ve outlined.
You’re just missing how all the works, let me outline:
There’s a computer
It’s been programmed to register votes
The vote registration system has been gamed
It will take a certain percentage of votes for one candidate and turn them to the other
All records that computer generates (soft or hard) will reflect that change
There will be NO record (soft or hard) of those votes as being for the intended candidate
There will ONLY be records (soft or hard) of those votes will say they’re for the programmer chosen candidate
Hand counts will be of printouts made by that software and therefore will reflect the programmer chosen candidate
Software counts (like block chain) will be of made by that software and therefore will reflect the programmer chosen candidate
He who controls the software that decides what button was pushed controls ALL records of the vote
Putting a block chain after that does nothing
> “People STILL will not be able to see what’s going on in the machines. Hell even election officials don’t see it, they’re just hoping the stuff works as advertised. Every 4 years we see the story “I pushed X but Y blinked”, BCT doesn’t fix that, BCT won’t KNOW they’re fraud votes. It can’t. The touch screen is going to say “vote for Y” and BCT will say “certified” even though the voter will be saying “I pushed X”.”
That’s what exists today, TODAY.
When Block-Chain Tech is implemented, there shall be changes on how that all works. Touchscreens may still be utilized but with protective features that will appear when Block-Chain Tech is implemented.
Companies that make voting machines will need to be blockchain-compliant. That’s not excessively burdensome, it happens in every industry on an as-need basis. Samsung for example just had to recall all its newest product mobile phones.
If there is no hand ballot scanner, for example, only touchscreens are available, then other options are available.
One example was described above in a post to you by another poster. It involves giving a voter a temporary encrypted pass-fob that is unique (only one vote) that can be used by the voter to both vote and verify their vote.
Their vote can be recorded behind an encryption code and is IMMEDIATELY transmitted to the blockchain and matched with a corresponding encryption code in the blockchain.
A hack of this would be extraordinarily difficult to defeat. The hacker would have to get past, say a 256-bit encryption code and the hacker would have to do it for each vote.
Because the code and the vote would transmit together to the blockchain, they would hit each node in the blockchain making it impossible for a hacker to hack the entire blockchain. Any inconsistencies would entail suspending the polling station until an investigation was complete. Backup procedures would be carried out to allow voting to continue.
At polling stations where hand ballots are fed into a scanner, we have already covered that above.
Donald Trump is a former casino investor and owner, for very high-end gaming equipment. Companies that make gaming equipment for high-end casinos understand security extremely well. They understand people will do everything under the sun to make machines payout including magnets. RF signals, you name it.
There is no reason on Earth why Block-Chain Tech cannot be procured with high security to ensure election integrity. Existing voting machine companies can be certified to be blockchain-compliant. They are certified now by other means but those certifications are a joke as many security holes and vulnerabilities exist. The US Government can cause companies to close those holes by moving to secure Block-Chain Technology.