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How to Create an Anonymous Voting System on the Blockchain Using Zero-Knowledge Proofs


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How to create an anonymous voting system on the blockchain using zero-knowledge proofs
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Paper-based voting (like the US Presidental Election) is an expensive and not optimal way of voting. I have no exact data, but it costs billions of dollars. Managing the voting process and counting votes needs a really huge amount of human work. Can we do it better, cheaper, and more secure? The answer is yes. The cost of a blockchain-based voting system would be only a fraction of this money, and it would be much safer than the current paper-based method. In this article, I would show how this blockchain-based system would work.

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