Serious idea: Chaumian minted voting system. The poll booth mints tokens* for each item on a ballot, which are pre-encrypted with the voter's public key**, and the voter decrypts and sends anonymously to the proper recipients***.
*multiple option issues have a token for each option, and the intended option gets sent while the the others get discarded. I am sure a write-in system could be achieved somehow, but it would have to be handled differently.
**the key is a one-time use key generated between the booth and the voter, anonymized and free from tracking and thus censorship.
***proper recipients could be a broadcast to multiple or many adversarial parties to keep the system honest
James Lewis
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2024-05-31 03:09:39
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2024-05-31 03:09:39Event JSON
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