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by vegetablepotpie 1348 days ago
In the paper the authors describe using a blockchain to store the results. The blockchain is only mined in private, by an administrator, where voter id information is removed after the election. What is the benefit of a blockchain over a table (csv, JSON, database, excel etc) to store the data? Blockchains application is when you need to reach shared consensus without trust. We’re not in this situation that the paper describes.