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Hands hold a paper sheet with the message your vote matters over a crowded street background. People legal and democratic rights, every voice counts. Election campaign and electoral agitation concept

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December 21, 2020

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Data Privacy

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___longform, Alan Turing, Alice and Bob, Alonzo Church, Ballots, Cryptography, Cryptosecure Election Protocol (CEP), Electoral fraud prevention, Featured, Proof of identity, Turing Principle, Voting machines}

How Crypto Can Help Secure Fair Elections

_{Here’s what we need for a cryptosecure election protocol (CEP)} _{News

December 21, 2020

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(Recently, we’ve been asking readers to think about Alice and Bob, the famous pair in physics used to demonstrate propositions in a variety of contexts but we began to focus on what happens if Alice and Bob are competing for a political office. Bernard Fickser, whose argument for reform we have been following, offers a look at how a crypto secure election system might work.) We now come to the most interesting part of this article, namely, a cryptographically based protocol for securing elections. If such a protocol can be made to fly, it will do much to secure free and fair elections as well as to boost voter confidence that votes are being accurately counted and not mixed with Read More ›

Multi-ethnic group of people standing in row and wearing masks at polling station on election day

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December 18, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics

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Alice and Bob, Ballots, Election integrity, Electoral fraud, financial fraud}

How Electoral Fraud Is Different From Financial Fraud

_{Money can be moved around safely but votes must be credited to a single intended destination} _{News

December 18, 2020

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Artificial Intelligence, Ethics}

(Recently, we’ve been asking readers to think about Alice and Bob, the famous pair in physics used to demonstrate propositions in a variety of contexts but, just for now, let’s look at how Alice’s vote might be stolen, as opposed to funds from her account being stolen. What would help prevent that? This is Bernard Fickser’s view:) The role of the voter in the electoral context has no parallel in the financial context. As a result, a significant difference exists in the roles of financial Alice and Bob versus electoral Alice and Bob. In the financial context, Alice, Bob and others like them (Carol, David, Earnest, etc.) are financial agents that consciously move money, or capital, among themselves. In the Read More ›

african american citizen voting near stand with vote lettering

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December 17, 2020

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Ethics

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Alice and Bob, Electoral fraud, Featured, financial fraud}

What If Voters Could Sue for Lost or Altered Ballots?

_{Let’s look at the difference between what happens with financial fraud and electoral fraud} _{News

December 17, 2020

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Recently, we’ve been asking readers to think about Alice and Bob, the famous pair in physics used to demonstrate propositions in a variety of contexts but, just for now. Let’s look at how Alice might be able to detect financial fraud, courtesy the blog Expensivity. Fraudster Frank can cheat Financial Alice. But how does she know? Bernard Fickser asks us to consider two ways… and to ask, what if it involves stealing her vote? 1.The money just disappeared. In this case there would be no record of any authorization by Alice, or by someone impersonating Alice, or by any bank official that she disbursed the funds. This would represent a cybersecurity failure on the part of the bank, and the Read More ›

european Union parliament election concept - hand putting ballot in blue election box

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December 14, 2020

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Data Privacy, Economics

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Alice and Bob, Bernard Fickser, Electoral reform, Expensivity, financial fraud}

How Can We Prevent Financial or Election Fraud?

_{Both contexts come down to an accounting problem, keeping track of money or votes over time.} _{News

December 14, 2020

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Data Privacy, Economics}

Here’s an idea from Expensivity, a blog about money and a lot of other things. Let’s take two people, the famous Alice and Bob, used to demonstrate many propositions in math and science: In an electoral context, we think of Alice and Bob as candidates running against each other for the same office. Alice’s ledger indicates votes that have been added or subtracted over time (with dates and times of the additions and subtractions), as well as her current vote total. Similarly for Bob. The vote total in each ledger starts at zero and can never drop below zero. If only legitimate votes are added to Alice’s ledger, there should be no need for votes ever to be subtracted from Read More ›