<html><head></head><body>Zero Knowledge Cryptography to the rescue! The Zcash team has written a nice piece about it: <a href="https://z.cash/technology/zksnarks.html">https://z.cash/technology/zksnarks.html</a><br>
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"Zero-knowledge proofs allow one party (the prover) to prove to another (the verifier) that a statement is true, without revealing any information beyond the validity of the statement itself. For example, given the hash of a random number, the prover could convince the verifier that there indeed exists a number with this hash value, without revealing what it is."<br>
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This could be applied to the statement "I Voted" or "I Voted for Cthulhu" without having to reveal who you are. <br>
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C. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On June 13, 2017 9:41:37 PM CDT, SR Ballard <sen.otaku@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Dave Sill <sparge@gmail.com> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><br /> This biggest problem I see with that [public key encryption] is that it's not secret ballot: the<br /> election office can see who voted for whom.<br /><br /> -Dave<br /></blockquote><br /><br />Having worked in politics, I can tell you that people really do tend<br />to vote party line, especially in bigger races, and are more likely to<br />swing in smaller races. Registered political parties are a good<br />indicator of big ticket votes.<br /><br />Potential swing voters are identified by demographic statistics. For<br />example, young (18-29) single, never-married women, who are head of<br />household, and are registered Republican are the most targeted by the<br />Democratic Party as potential swing voters. People will often tell you<br />their previous voting history, leading to a reasonable assumption of<br />future voting activity.<br /><br />And I'm not sure how many of you know this, but people often call<br />their local party office and specifically ASK who to vote for. If<br />you've never experienced that shocking moment, I suggest you<br />experience it. It's very depressing.<br /><br />Also, people will plaster their cars and social media with mention of<br />candidates that they will not, or will definitely vote for. Big data<br />can draw from a remarkable number of sources and identify fairly<br />reliably who people will vote for, often more accurately than people's<br />initial thoughts. So even if we did have a truly secret ballot, which<br />there really isn't, there are other ways to use data to determine<br />fairly accurately who someone voted for.<br /><br />Statistically speaking, a Republican was likely to win the election,<br />as America tends to flip parties for the presidential race. There are<br />obvious exceptions, Bush Sr. for example.<br /><hr /><br />extropy-chat mailing list<br />extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<br /><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><br /><br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>