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@blazescarr
July 29, 2025 at 1:31 pm
How do you prevent someone from being coerced into their vote by someone in the physical room? What if a person’s abusive husband is watching over them and watching who they vote for? How do you ensure privacy?
@Quintinohthree
July 29, 2025 at 2:29 pm
@@rodrigosarcinelli What good is calling the police when the crime has already affected the outcome of the election?
@rodrigosarcinelli
July 29, 2025 at 2:33 pm
@@Quintinohthree0.001% wouldn’t change the result of the election if 3X more voters are now able to vote…
It’s mathematical logic!
@Quintinohthree
July 29, 2025 at 2:48 pm
@@rodrigosarcinelli If anyone was willing to risk criminal prosecution to coerce a vote, you’re damn sure it’s going to affevt the outcome.
I’ve only ever voted in person on paper ballots. For the most part, that has been the only option. Some of those had turnouts around 80%. Getting 3X more voters eould mean over 58% of votes would be fraudulent. You’re really making my point for me here.
@andersjohnson9565
July 29, 2025 at 2:59 pm
It is widely reported that during the 18th and 19th centuries, when voting was public, illegal vote selling was “commonplace.” Nobody has exact statistics, but history shows that facilitating this is a bad idea.
@TevoSaks
July 29, 2025 at 1:43 pm
Don’t get all the negative comments about enchancing voting and making it easier to provide better, more transparent and secure results.
Coercing has nothing to if you vote on phone or real life. Although depends what the app shows.
But if it’s purpose built, on public Blockchain and with identity credentials (like hundreds of dapps already across many different networks, I suggest Cardano) you are good place to enhance governance.
@Quintinohthree
July 29, 2025 at 2:28 pm
If it has identity credentials, it automatically fails.
@TevoSaks
July 29, 2025 at 3:53 pm
@@Quintinohthreehow come? It doesn’t mean the identity is public, credentials proves there is real entity behind the vote with valid requirements to vote
@Quintinohthree
July 29, 2025 at 6:15 pm
@@TevoSaks If a credential is unique it is an identifier and therefore fails anonimity. If a credential is interchangeable it can be reused and therefore fails security. Either way, it doesn’t work. You have failed in creating a system of voting. I don’t know what you have created, but it’s not voting.
@CarlosSilva-mx7ey
July 29, 2025 at 1:45 pm
😂😂😂
@Benoit-Pierre
July 29, 2025 at 2:00 pm
Use a domestic copputer to vote ?
Either its an open hardware, and the app is likely to.refuse to work for security reasons, or its closed source hardware, and the user cant trust its own device ( with many more issues like pricing ).
@anthonyamaro1771
July 29, 2025 at 2:00 pm
Republicans will never allow this to happen
@Quintinohthree
July 29, 2025 at 2:20 pm
So this starts of with “how many of you do your banking/healthcare/love/entertainment/travel on your phone?” The next question is immediately about voting. As if those are equivalent. You know, the entire point of all those things is that someone on the other end must know that it was you that put sonething in. The entire pount of voting is that nobody, in the entire world, should be able to know what you put in. With that opening I’m immediately deeply skeptical of everything that is still to be said.
@rodrigosarcinelli
July 29, 2025 at 2:27 pm
he said that only 7% turnout…. if someone is committing a crime, the police should be called, and that edge case shouldn’t be even 0.001%
@Quintinohthree
July 29, 2025 at 2:44 pm
@@rodrigosarcinelli What you’re saying has no relation to what I said. You copied it from another context where it already barely makes sense and it makes no sense here at all.
@rodrigosarcinelli
July 29, 2025 at 2:24 pm
this technology can save my Country Brazil!!!! hopefully we are still a democracy… thank you!
@rdspanton
July 29, 2025 at 2:41 pm
I’m going to vote with my phone against this proposal right here: no!
@sanusmotus1696
July 29, 2025 at 2:57 pm
It will never happen as long as billionaires comtrol every aspect of government enabled by Trump’s fascism
@lavluvlov
July 29, 2025 at 3:05 pm
Only paper vote can be trust and verify truly after vote when necessary
@AdityaMehendale
July 29, 2025 at 3:15 pm
Next step: microvoting on daily issues (instead of some representative, once every three to six years)
@Quintinohthree
July 29, 2025 at 6:18 pm
Who picks the issues?
@AdityaMehendale
July 30, 2025 at 4:01 am
@@Quintinohthree That’s a solvable problem, akin to “Who picks the candidates?”
@Quintinohthree
July 30, 2025 at 7:54 am
@@AdityaMehendale Right, and that solution is? And where exactly will it require voting by phone? Because as far as I can see, it’s alteady been solved with systems involving only paper and pencils.
@AdityaMehendale
July 30, 2025 at 3:01 pm
@@Quintinohthree Typically the decisions that the general public don’t get to decide, but only get to hear in the news, after the fact. Let’s say a more inclusive form of decision-making. The <> removes the barrier-to-entry.
@Quintinohthree
July 30, 2025 at 3:29 pm
@@AdityaMehendale Right, but the barrier to entry really isn’t the device, it’s the ability to put an issue up for referendum. That issue has been well and truly solved. The gold standard is Seitzerland.
@andersjohnson9565
July 29, 2025 at 3:19 pm
It had better be easy for a non-voter to verify that no ballot has been voted on his behalf, or else electronic ballot stuffing could be a huge problem.
@andersjohnson9565
July 29, 2025 at 3:24 pm
The tracking code had better prove that the ballot decrypts as cast, or else vote modification could be a big problem. Microsoft’s ElectionGuard does that properly.
@andersjohnson9565
July 29, 2025 at 3:31 pm
Open source is a good thing, but it doesn’t solve the security problem, because there is no way to prove that what is actually running on the computer is exactly the same as the open-source software.
@SanmiAdeosun-z6o
July 29, 2025 at 5:05 pm
Absolutely NOT! Just from the phrase of having the Back-end open-source you’ve lost me. The way that thing will be fvcked up days; probably even hours, after launch will be astronomical, just opening it up to be messed with. And in addition to that having it be so accessible (by being on thier phones) is a pretty sure-fire way for voting to become trivialised. As the urgency of things decrease (in this case where you would no longer need to have to go out of your way to vote.). people WILL slowly but surely devote less and less deep thought into a thing and while yes for such a thing it can be regarded as immune due to the impact/consequences that may ensue would put people off from making sudden, suface-level decisions it is still not possible to rid Man of such a thing. Bruddahs praying on our downfall.
@lordbeniel
July 29, 2025 at 5:34 pm
this is truly asinie
@AB-RV12
July 29, 2025 at 6:10 pm
If you’re too lazy to get out and vote you’re probably politically an idiot. Exhibit A: mail in ballots favored Joe Biden and Kamala Harris 😅😅
@tylerlanigan3866
July 29, 2025 at 7:28 pm
This is a bad idea
@Cutter401-v8g
July 29, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Thought we learned our lesson with mail in ballots
@gonzalomorenoandonaegui2052
July 29, 2025 at 7:31 pm
Is it Blockchain based ?
@peacesofniecy
July 29, 2025 at 7:38 pm
Interesting take.
@joshbradstreet1736
July 29, 2025 at 7:49 pm
I want a system that allows us to vote on individual issues instead of trusting politicians to do right by us !
@TRexHeliPilot
July 29, 2025 at 8:50 pm
It always amazed me how we can vote as a nation to determine whose the next America’s Got Talent superstar and get results in 15 minutes or less yet I need to have congressmen, senators, and electoral colleges represent me for the votes that truly matter. In today’s era, the house and senate are outdated. We do not need people to represent us. They represent themselves and the superpacs that line their pockets. Put the power of the vote where it truly belongs, with the people.
@nishiki393
July 29, 2025 at 11:39 pm
totally different stakes, so it shouldn’t surprise you at all.
@ottersmeep25
July 29, 2025 at 8:52 pm
Voting centers are a wonderful way to anonymize votes because of how many people vote in them. You can’t pick out one or two people from 1000 ballots and see who they voted for. Electronic voting is exactly the opposite.
@mitchellmcneill8555
July 29, 2025 at 9:12 pm
There are so many other issues with voting… Ranked choice vs majority vote, there’s no requirement to vote, there isn’t enough education on current issues in public education, gerrymandering, redistricting, campaign finance, lobbyists, need I continue.
@SirGriefALot
July 29, 2025 at 11:22 pm
This is the worst idea ever.
I get several scam calls a day, you know people would find a way to hack the system.
@JulioDamiánDíazLópez
July 29, 2025 at 11:24 pm
Qué ahí del voto secreto?si lo hacemos cómo dices sabrían a quién vote
@NeonsStyleHD
July 29, 2025 at 11:25 pm
You clearly know nothing about hacking! Digital voting allows bad actors to interfere with was proved in 2016. Before digital voting, it was next to impossible for foreign bad actors to alter the outcome of an election. The only ones who like Digital Voting are vote counters, Treasury and Russian hackers
@gasdive
July 30, 2025 at 12:39 am
From a country that is famous for being dumb, comes a really dumb idea. Just have compulsory preferential voting
@glennchugg6015
July 30, 2025 at 12:45 am
Why so much hate? The fact is extreme voters are the main ones who vote, so it’s already a broken system, even if this makes it less broken then it’s a net positive. If we can have bitcoin being somewhats secure, then we can make this work too. Yes there will be attack vectors, but that is something that can be improved/fixed.
I don’t see why so much polarisation exists, both sides want to try to make things better for the people and to secure their next vote. So for them to take the risks involved in modifying the election results is actually harder on digital certified counts. The only reason they need it anonymous is because the extreme political sides may treat the voters against them as an enemy. Which just shows how far humanity has to go before we can be equals.
The fact it’s all profit driven instead of progress driven also shows human kind is not ready for progress, thinking like is a competition against other people, instead of a shared journey. The way I see it if you take too much from others they have no options but to steal and rebel to be able to survive, I am not saying in some cases drugs and bad people wouldn’t do it anyway, but we can/do have a judiciary system in place to deal with those who are caught.
With AI about to take away a bunch of jobs, we’ll need to find a better way to let people live instead of having to fight to survive. If the choice is scam a few extra dollars to pay the rent or buy your kids food, or have them out on the street or going hungry, what do you expect will happen. We have an educational system in place to explain how street drugs have NEVER made anyone’s life better in the long run. The reason most decide to take them is because they aren’t enjoying the struggle of life and to escape from it they make bad decisions. Are you trying to tell me that people are inherently bad/evil and that they are too lazy to work… NO! people need to have social connections, they need to have purpose and most of all they need security in their life, without that they live in fight or flight mode and can never think clearly.
I still can’t believe that people really think this is a bad idea? is that their expertise in the subject talking or the fear and disinformation that gets spread by those already in power or social influence. I mean We can’t just trust blindly, but having options available is always better than being told and forced to do things the way it’s always been done. It’s called progress, every part of our lives is about to change and if you let fear make the decisions then haven’t we already given up on the existing system? If it’s such a good system then we’d not have people making open sourced solutions to problems like this. I mean there is even fear of open source – why? Do you not understand the level of auditing that can and does go into this? I trust open sourced more than closed source as with any project, it only takes one bad actor to plant a backdoor and if it’s at the last level of the code audit then it isn’t trust worthy.
@haebaee
July 30, 2025 at 2:28 am
9:52 upsiee, this is so trueee
@DiasusCH
July 30, 2025 at 11:43 am
Tech bro logic…
@amymartin5578
July 30, 2025 at 9:31 pm
That is the absolute worst idea, ever! It lends itself to fraud big time. No way.
@kenromero9236
July 30, 2025 at 10:57 pm
In my 78 years I’ve seen turnout drop each time a move made it “easier” to vote. Plus didn’t he notice all the headlines about “cyber crimes”? If someone can write an “unbreakable” code or program there is an eight year old that will say “hold my root beer”.
@ArkMic7
July 31, 2025 at 3:53 am
Bruh… does nobody remeber that 2016 vote for Deez Nutz was a thing? Also, even the mail in ballots that got hyper inflated to vote for a certain someone rigging the votes? 😆 classic Tedtalk commie opening it up. Also, two words… electoral college 😆 smh i get i though, why pay attention to people that wanna force their values and or manipulations down your throat.
@LeeBarry
July 31, 2025 at 1:09 pm
But it doesn’t solve the Electoral College problem and the way SCOTUS is now stacked. Perhaps this can work in mayoral elections, but not general elections.
@Tal-k1o
July 31, 2025 at 1:40 pm
Blockchain and trust less wallets and trust less authentication systems already provides the technology for this. This should absolutely be a thing, also further more if the ability to vote overcasts voter confidentiality then that’s still a better outcome for a more fair democracy. In a nation where our election isn’t even a federally recognized holiday, why shouldn’t technology fill in that gap?