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Kindly comments on Does My Vote Matter? - Less Wrong Discussion

19 Post author: orthonormal 05 November 2012 01:23AM

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Comment author: Kindly 05 November 2012 05:18:42AM 3 points [-]

Better yet: first, an anonymized database of all ballots is made publicly available on the Internet (this can even have IDs that let people check that their vote was recorded correctly). Alice, Bob, and Claire pick integers A, B, C much larger than the number of voters (N), and commit to hashes of those integers (this step can even be done before voting). Then they reveal A, B, and C, compute A+B+C mod N, and use that voter's ballot to determine the outcome of the election.