> “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.
That might have been me. Whether it was or not, the private key is not given to the voter, but the voter does have to register a public key with a registrar. I said numerous times that the system does not solve the problem of multiple registrations, fraudulent registrations, etc.
So the pre-voting registration problem remains unsolved. On election day the system I described allows what you said: one vote per registered voter (fraudulently registered or not). Plus the voter can immediate verify that their vote was recorded immutably which is not possible with any of today's voting methods.
No. As discostu pointed out often, those can be hacked. Also you cannot have an existing system writing to the blockchain with its own private key mainly because there are no such systems with private keys. In bitcoin you will never see a system make a transaction with a private key, only a person with their own private key.
No there won’t be. That’s what I’ve explained to you over and over and over. Being on the block chain is not going to force them to have honest software, and it won’t prevent the touch screen interface from being hacked even if their software was honest.
You’re panacea thinking. And there are no panaceas, especially in the tech sector.