@tante
Like voting computers:
Local municipality went for these some years ago because they’re, like, shiny and “digital” and supposidly save time.
CCC (hacker’s association, ie: who everyone expected to be maximally excited about this) sued against these and had them found unconsitutional!
Why? Well, the consitution requires the ballot process to be understande and comprehensible by lay persons so that there never can be a situation where a claims of the vote having been rigged are impossible to verify. (We’re talking about hard power interests here after all.)
A vote conducted using a computer is not comprehensible by lay persons. Period.
Nerds would often be like: “But, but we could use blinded tokens, we could use zero-knoweldge proofs. It be completely verifiable!”
Yes, to like 2 people on Earth maybe!
To proof it to everyone else we’d need a papertrail and verify that. An activity generally refered to as “counting the votes”...
Might as well stick to that then.
tante
Curio