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Monday, November 16, 2020

(Updated): Is Blockchain e-Voting a Solution to Elections?

 Blockchain Voting.    In Coindesk. 

New MIT Paper Roundly Rejects Blockchain Voting as Solution to Election Woes  By Benjamin Powers

As media outlets waited to announce a winner until the Saturday following the election day, calls for how blockchains would have made this process easier emerged, most prominently perhaps by  Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance, as well as Vitalik Buterin, who added that, though there are technical challenges, the call for a blockchain-based, mobile voting app “is directionally 100% correct.”

A new report from MIT, however, strongly argues against the idea of blockchain-based e-voting, largely on the basis that it will increase cybersecurity vulnerabilities that already exist, it fails meet the unique needs of voting in political elections and it adds more issues than it fixes. 

 (Update:  Here is draft of paper:  https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/PSNR20.pdf 

The report’s authors are Ron Rivest, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) professor and one of the creators of RSA encryption; Michael Specter; Sunoo Park; and Director of MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) Neha Narula. The paper will be published in the Journal of Cybersecurity later this month.    ... "     (Impressive group) 

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