Okay you throw on some ebola-riddled meat on the grill with your tongs, let it cook, killing the ebola, but then you take it off the grill with the same tongs getting ebola back on the meat, not very sani-tary. (That could be a jingle.) With the new "sani-grill" you place tongs in a special spot between uses where the tong ends are in the flame, thus killing the ebola everywhere.
Electronic voting. Yea, even internet voting. Really shouldn't be impossible. Tom Scott says this is a terrible idea, but I don't think it's so unsolvable. The ways to cheat are: - stuffing the ballot box with bogus votes - counting or recording the votes bogusly - voting more than once or voting for someone else Voter confidentiality must be preserved. Here's my solution. - every voter must authenticate with some non-government system that 1) ensures user ID uniqueness 2) contains a method for contacting the voter (can be a form obscuring contact details) 3) creates a random code which is not retained by the system. This is easily done by Google, Facebook, or any tiny NGO. They would need to register and be subject to audit. - when a user votes, the data is logged in two public registers. 1) a voters register showing the person's user ID (or a unique variant from the authenticator) 2) a vote register showing the random code and how they voted
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