佐治亚州斯克里文县利用比特币区块链维护选举结果创造历史

斯克里文县选举委员会与 Simple Proof（一家使用比特币区块链保护数字记录的美国公司）合作，以确保他们的选举结果不会被更改。

A U.S. voter submits a ballot. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP) (Photo by ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)

一名美国选民提交选票。 （埃德·琼斯/法新社拍摄）（埃德·琼斯/法新社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄）

Screven County, Georgia made history on Friday when it became the first county in the United States to use the Bitcoin blockchain to safeguard the results of its elections.

佐治亚州斯克雷文县周五创造了历史，成为美国第一个使用比特币区块链来保障选举结果的县。

The Screven County Board of Elections worked with Simple Proof, a U.S. company that protects digital records using the Bitcoin blockchain, to ensure that their election results couldn’t be altered.

斯克里文县选举委员会与 Simple Proof（一家使用比特币区块链保护数字记录的美国公司）合作，以确保他们的选举结果不会被更改。

Supervisor of Elections Stacy Scott Mincey hired Simple Proof to make sure that the handling of votes in her county wasn’t called into question the way it was in another Georgia county during the 2020 elections.

选举主管 Stacy Scott Mincey 聘请了 Simple Proof，以确保她所在县的选票处理不会像 2020 年选举期间佐治亚州另一个县那样受到质疑。

“One of my goals was to do everything I could to make sure that people in the county felt secure, that their votes counted, especially with the heightened concerns around security and voter fraud,” Mincey told me in an interview. “Using Simple Proof was just one more step that we took to make sure that our results could not be tampered with in any way.”

明西在接受采访时告诉我：“我的目标之一是尽一切努力确保该县人民感到安全，确保他们的选票有价值，尤其是在人们对安全和选民欺诈的担忧日益加剧的情况下。” “使用简单证明只是我们为确保我们的结果不会以任何方式篡改而采取的又一步。”

What Simple Proof Does

简单证明的作用是什么

Simple Proof gained notoriety when its immutable proof service was used to safeguard the results of Guatemala’s most recent presidential election, which was detailed in the documentary Immutable Democracy.

Simple Proof 因其不可变的证明服务被用来保护危地马拉最近的总统选举结果而声名狼藉，纪录片《不可变的民主》对此进行了详细介绍。

Simple Proof uses an open-source protocol called OpenTimestamps, developed by Peter Todd, a former Bitcoin Core developer.

Simple Proof 使用名为 OpenTimestamps 的开源协议，该协议由前比特币核心开发人员 Peter Todd 开发。

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The protocol enables cryptographic timestamping, which uses hash functions to preserve information on Bitcoin’s immutable ledger. The information is stored in the OP_RETURN function of a Bitcoin transaction. This is where the party sending a transaction can include arbitrary information, which is similar to the “memo” space on a physical check.

该协议支持加密时间戳，它使用哈希函数来保存比特币不可变账本上的信息。该信息存储在比特币交易的 OP_RETURN 函数中。这是发送交易的一方可以包含任意信息的地方，类似于物理支票上的“备注”空间。

Anyone can then verify this immutable proof on Simple Proof’s platform or independently in a trustless manner via the Bitcoin blockchain. Put a simpler way, Simple Proof enables the public to verify the election results and other official documents once they’re secured by the Bitcoin blockchain.

然后任何人都可以在 Simple Proof 的平台上验证这个不可变的证明，或者通过比特币区块链以不信任的方式独立验证。简而言之，简单证明使公众能够验证选举结果和其他官方文件，一旦它们受到比特币区块链的保护。

Simple Proof And Screven County

简单证明和斯克里文县

In the case of the Screven County elections, the information stored on the blockchain was the Election Summary Reports, which contain vote tallies, and the Statement of Votes Cast, which provides a county-wide overview of election results and other election details.

就斯克里文县选举而言，存储在区块链上的信息是选举摘要报告（其中包含计票结果）和投票声明（提供全县选举结果和其他选举细节的概览）。

Carlos Toriello, Elections Lead at Simple Proof, said that his organization worked to make it as easy as possible for Mincey to protect these documents.

Simple Proof 的选举负责人 Carlos Toriello 表示，他的组织致力于让 Mincey 尽可能轻松地保护这些文件。

“We wanted to make sure that this was painless for Stacy,” Toriello told me in an interview.

“我们希望确保史黛西不会感到痛苦，”托列洛在接受采访时告诉我。

He went on to share that all Mincey had to do was email the documents to Simple Proof’s immutable proof service, which automatically timestamped the documents on the blockchain.

他接着分享说，Mincey 所要做的就是将文档通过电子邮件发送到 Simple Proof 的不可变证明服务，该服务会自动在区块链上为文档添加时间戳。

The first instance of this timestamping occurred at 7:54 p.m. EST on November 5, 2024 and can be viewed via its Simple Proof verification page.

该时间戳的第一个实例发生在美国东部时间 2024 年 11 月 5 日晚上 7:54，可以通过其简单证明验证页面查看。

Screenshot for Simple Proof's Document Verification Portal

Simple Proof 文档验证门户的屏幕截图

“Block number 869,047 is the first block in Bitcoin's chain to contain proof of a U.S. election,” said Toriello.

“区块号 869,047 是比特币链中第一个包含美国大选证据的区块，”Toriello 说。

Screven County’s Voting System

斯克雷文县的投票系统

While Simple Proof protects voting records, it doesn’t ensure the legitimacy of the votes. In the U.S., this responsibility falls on the local board of elections.

虽然简单证明可以保护投票记录，但它不能确保投票的合法性。在美国，这一责任由地方选举委员会承担。

“In Georgia, the Secretary of State does a great job of making sure that the elections are secure,” said Mincey.

“在佐治亚州，国务卿在确保选举安全方面做得很好，”明西说。

“We use machines, but we have paper ballots, too. So, if there’s a problem, we can go back and hand count the paper ballots,” she added.

“我们使用机器，但我们也有纸质选票。因此，如果出现问题，我们可以回去手工清点纸质选票，”她补充道。

Mincey went on to share that the machines count the ballots and produce the aforementioned reports. However, she and her team have a means of checking that the reports are at least mostly correct.

明西接着分享说，机器会计算选票并生成上述报告。然而，她和她的团队有办法检查这些报告至少大部分是正确的。

“Our county does an audit where we hand count a portion of the ballots to make sure they match what we got from the machine,” said Mincey. “I think that's a great extra step of security that we have to make sure that the elections are valid.”

明西说：“我们县进行了一次审计，我们手工清点了部分选票，以确保它们与我们从机器上得到的结果相符。” “我认为这是一个重要的额外安全步骤，我们必须确保选举有效。”

How Mincey Found Simple Proof

明西如何找到简单的证明

Not only does Mincey have a deep knowledge of how voting works in her state, but she’s also quite familiar with Bitcoin. And it’s actually because of Bitcoin that she met Toriello.

明西不仅对她所在州的投票运作方式有深入的了解，而且对比特币也非常熟悉。事实上，正是因为比特币，她才认识了托列洛。

Members of Mincey’s meetup group attended Bitcoin 2024 this past July (Mincey couldn’t make the event). The group members met Toriello and Simple Proof’s booth at the conference, where they were raising awareness about how public records can be protected in an immutable manner using Bitcoin.

Mincey 聚会小组的成员于去年 7 月参加了 Bitcoin 2024（Mincey 未能参加该活动）。小组成员在会议上会见了 Toriello 和 Simple Proof 的展位，他们在那里提高了人们对如何使用比特币以不可变的方式保护公共记录的认识。

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