Comment by maratc
4 hours ago
You cannot solve it with cryptography. I understand cryptography but my parents don’t, so I will be voting instead of my parents. This way, I get three votes while they get zero votes each.[0]
I'll quote Bruce Schneier [1]:
If you think cryptography can solve your problem, *you don’t understand your problem* and you don’t understand cryptography.
0: I already do anything related to any interaction with a computer system for them (including payments, social security, medical, travel, etc.)
1: He dug into the origins of this here: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/05/laurie-anders...
That's an independent angle, you can still do in-person votes the default.
As long as the non-in-person option exists, the results won't be trusted.
In the US, there was a lot of discussion that the Biden win over Trump in 2020 is a result of the younger family members quarantined on Covid with their parents and mail-voting for them. I don't believe that's what's happened, but this discussion could not have taken place at all in a world where mail-voting is not an option.