"...but I can log in to my online bank and presumably transfer money without any dollars ending up unaccounted..."
This sort of example gets thrown around a lot and it's totally bogus. Banks are solving a much easier problem. To keep track of all the money they just need to make sure that every dollar is always tied to an account. Every transaction is logged.
A key requirement of a voting system is that it must be impossible to tie a vote to a person. This complicates things by at least an order of magnitude.
This sort of example gets thrown around a lot and it's totally bogus. Banks are solving a much easier problem. To keep track of all the money they just need to make sure that every dollar is always tied to an account. Every transaction is logged.
A key requirement of a voting system is that it must be impossible to tie a vote to a person. This complicates things by at least an order of magnitude.