论文标题
电力民主：确保选举的工作证明
Electric Democracy: Proof of Work to secure Elections
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论文摘要
由于众多的安全缺点，电子投票始终无法取代常规投票。在便利性和界面方面，传统投票方法不仅是平庸的，而且还包括主要代理问题，国家可能对投票结果产生了兴趣。使用密码学以在零信任环境中交付的电子投票协议早就应该了。在这里，我建议在用户设备上使用工作证明算法与其他众所周知的安全原始人结合使用，以构建零信任投票系统。国家只会向其公民发出一次性投票授权，而零信托设计将允许通过具有增强可观察性的开源平台进行选举。还可以假设，通过拟议的设计，全民投票的可用性最终可能会改变我们社会参与政策制定的方式。
Electronic voting consistently fails to supplant conventional paper ballot due to a plethora of security shortcomings. Not only are traditional voting methods mediocre in terms of convenience and interface, they also encompass principal-agent problem, where the state may have vested interest in the outcome of the ballot. Electronic voting protocol using cryptography to deliver in zero trust environments is long overdue. Here I propose using Proof of Work algorithm at user devices in combination with other well-known security primitives to build a zero-trust voting system. The state would only issue single-use voting authorizations to its citizens, while zero trust design would allow conducting elections by an open-source platform with enhanced observability. It is also hypothesized that the heighten availability of plebiscite by means of the proposed design may ultimately change the way our society participates in the policy making.
