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QnA · 30w
Love it!
Digital Witness · 103w
we weren't aware but are very happy to hear Netherlands has such a similar system. @sjors is correct in saying that, if you timestamp in real time, you can take your time with the audit... it will be a post mortem, but those are better than nothing and always reveal unexpected details.
ODELL · 120w
GUATEMALA BECAME THE FIRST COUNTRY TO IMPROVE ITS ELECTION PROCESSES USING BITCOIN. 1) VOTES STILL CAST AS NORMAL. 2) VOTE TALLIES IN EACH DISTRICT ARE THEN NOTARIZED AND TIMESTAMPED USING BITCOIN. 3...
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A bit more context from someone who was involved on this. While it doesnt cryptographically eliminate the possibility of tampering from the moment a vote is cast, it greatly reduces the window of possible tampering to a few short moments between when the witnesses sign the physical tally sheet and when its scanned and the jpg is made available on the server.

The goal of this project was to build on the existing paper ballot + physical witness system in Guatemala and what opentimestamps made possible, by actually running a citizens' audit, in a relatively low cost and reproducable way using Stakwork. Stakwork was a good fit for this as it allowed us to break up each tally sheet into microtasks in a blind AI-human consensus using open source models and anon Stakworkers, most of which signed up during the audit on fiscaldigital.net

Heres a presentation from Adopting Bitcoin conf late last year explaining the process in more detail: https://youtu.be/eyvfGnlzXqo?si=qsNpFpuXb-4rdbtc