There’s been a report about online voting, positing that it’s inherently at odds with the anonymous vote. As it currently stands, that’s correct.
But does it have to be? Or at least, can it be as well-secured from voting fraud and coercion as the paper ballot is today? I’m not sure. It would be difficult, perhaps unrealistically so, but I can’t help but wonder if it’s possible to build a system with secret sharing and PKI with a trusted third party handling authentication.
One of the things I’ve been poking around with recently is a hosting solution for APIs on this site (AKA the reverse proxy I’ve mentioned before). I’ve seen things that I’ve liked (mostly sandstorm), and while I’m certainly going to take things from a bunch of other places, it looks like I’m gonna have to do my own. Again. Which I totally don’t regret at all.
But, that’s not what this post is about.