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Sorry didn't"t read the question properly. No haven't yet thought of that.
As for your other points:
Even if there is a central authority there would be some interest in having a digital system as opposed to very slow, error prone and privacy compromising legacy system.
If you ever worked as a scrutineer you'd know what I talk about.
Also, the benefit of this is you can cast your vote publicly and everybody can verify it. The authority only assures that you can't cast twice.
No you are mistaken. The central authority does not issue your key. You issue your keys and tell the authority and the world your public one
Idk what it could look like with nostr. initially I thought the authority could be the municipality or the district where you go to vote, which would verify your identity before signing your blinded ballot.
The benefit of this is mainly the assurance that your vote is anonymous and that each vote that is cast is surely signed by someone within the public keys set (for example a foreigner cannot vote)
Yes initially I thought the authority could be the municipality or the district where you go to vote, which would verify your identity before signing your blinded ballot.
The benefit of this is mainly the assurance that your vote is anonymous and that each vote that is cast is surely signed by someone within the public keys set (for example a foreigner cannot vote)
I am wondering if a digital voting scheme would be possible by combining ring signatures, blind signatures and nostr.
With ring signatures a voter can sign their vote anonymously, and anybody can verify that "someone" that is registered as a voter has cast a valid vote.
The problem with this is that a voter can cast multiple valid votes, while we'd want to constrain that to one.
If everybody votes the cheating can be spotted, because the votes would surpass the number of voters. But even then, it would not possible to distinguish which votes are duplicate.
If we introduce and authority figure, then we can use blind signatures.
A voter creates their vote, turns it into a number, blinds that number and then communicates it to the authority.
The authority only signs that blinded vote if it can confirm the identity of the voter and that it hasn't already cast a vote.
The voter can then unblind the vote (only they can do that) and create a ring signature of the vote with the public keys of other plausible voters.
Now I am thinking: could we split that authority amongst nostr relays and have it collaboratively blindly sign something?
Well it could be worse, it could be raining!
420 was neat as well thank you!
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Kind reminder: paper ballots don’t fix the problems in our voting system.
You need the results to be publicly auditable by anyone, and immutably timestamped so they cannot be changed later.
Guatemala already did this.
Why can’t the United States?
(While this of course doesn’t fix *all* the problems, it is a start, and must be part of the conversation if you are pro-paper ballots).
https://fountain.fm/episode/GH8K4Q6jlGn1Mr6SNJlT nostr:note1gh9w8vyvgdn4ucznaaw3qzw92zdgl7pzvhdl7sd6xyjpxfj48a3slmvlxc
Because people don't understand cryptography. They never will.
You'd be amazed to what length they are willing to go to.
Oy, do you have a loiscense for that relay of yours?
Unlicensed relay operator
Unlicensed node operator