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USA Election Day 2022 Megathread

Tuesday November 8, 2022 is Election Day in the United States of America. In addition to Congressional "midterms" at the federal level, many state governors and other more local offices are up for grabs. Given how things shook out over Election Day 2020, things could get a little crazy.

...or, perhaps, not! But here's the Megathread for if they do. Talk about your local concerns, your national predictions, your suspicions re: election fraud and interference, how you plan to vote, anything election related is welcome here. Culture War thread rules apply, with the addition of Small-Scale Questions and election-related "Bare Links" allowed in this thread only (unfortunately, there will not be a subthread repository due to current technical limitations).

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There's a good number of reasons blockchain is the wrong technology for a voting system, not least of which is that it's hard to create one such that you can prove to the voting system that you voted but you cannot prove to any third party how you voted.

There are a number of cryptographic proposals around voting systems that try to provide integrity, anonymity, repudiation, verification and so forth. My take is that the goals are simply non-orthogonal and any such system basically has to give up on some property that folks will agree is worthwhile. The same is true for the existing system, it sucks in terms of integrity/speed but is far more anonymous and provides repudiation and so forth.