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Carlos Toriello

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  1. “Work at a nonprofit locally, we produce civics and Guatemalan history textbooks. This is our little website. We produce these textbooks. And basically, what I realized is there aren't enough young people involved in the election process. Especially because in that year there was just a very bad election outcome in terms of how this was being published. There was election fraud accusations. The documents were being changed. Anyway, it was a nightmare like the one you could imagine elections could become. And so I figured we could use the trust machine, you know, Bitcoin to bring trust back to elections. And so the first thing to understand is if you get involved in election auditing and you end up auditing all of the documents and your results contradict the results that are being presented publicly.”

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  2. “Similar to a coin join in that they are public allowing anyone like me to have access to this and verify the total tally. Protecting individuals' rights to privacy by, even though I could know that Preston voted at table number 21, I would have to basically assume that Preston voted for any one of these. And so you are protected by combining your votes along with everyone else. And since the counting of each of the votes happens in front of everyone, then this is a very widely witnessed document and it makes this into basically the best way to confirm that this actually Integrity. At that point, the ballots, individual ballots themselves just disappear. And this is what matters. There's 25,000 of these per election, and each year we do six elections. So there's over 150,000 documents of these.”

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  3. “All public information. So in this case, I'm showing you the example of table number 21000 out of 25,000. So I just randomly selected one out of 25,000. And you can see the type of election that's happening. In this case, it's the president, the vice president. And these three people down here are the volunteers with their ID, by the way. And then their signature here. Or demonstrates that they agree to what work that they did, but then down here, you can see that there was one, two, three, four, five, six different validating nodes signing off on this. And then up here, you can see that, or on the left, you can see all of the political parties and numbers that were assigned to each one. And so the totals of these are what make up this document. In that sense, these documents are a coin join.”

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  4. “Is what makes that document Come alive. And it's that signature by the validating nodes that confirms that all of those individual boats were counted as cast. And that tally sheet or summary document per table eliminates all the vote tally sheets, or sorry, all the individual votes. And so in that way, this document is eventually made public. And I can show you on my screen.”

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  5. “So, a political parties are supposed to send 25,000 witnesses. To oversee that the rules of the protocol at the voting tables, the custodians handling the votes are doing the job according to the rules. And that basically turns them into validating notes. And the volunteers, the citizen volunteers are effectively mining nodes. They're the ones that give the ballots to the citizens around 400 for it at every table. And at the end of the day, they dump out the individual ballots and they count every single one individually in front of the witnesses so that they are cast as intended. And the tally, the vote tally that this produces is a document that everyone has to sign. And so this document is signed by the miners, the three volunteers that do the all the hashing and the mining, but then the witnesses, the political party witnesses, the validating those have to also sign off. And that.”

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  6. “Guatemala has elections every four years, so you just have to wait around for another four years and you get another crack at it. And then in 2019, instead of coming back as a volunteer where I was manning the voting tables in charge of my neighbor's ballots, I came back as a political party witness. And I did that because a few family members of mine were running for Congress and they wanted my help and asked me for money, but I said I don't support political campaigns, but I will volunteer to oversee the process. And that's where similarities between how our voting system in Guatemala and proof of work comes into play, especially Bitcoin, so that political party witnesses everyone that competes in the election can send a witness to every single voting table all over the country. In 2023, there were 25,000 of these.”

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  7. “Sure. So I'm Carlos Torrello. People know me as Carlino. I'm from Guatemala. That's next door to El Salvador. And I've been passionate about elections since 2011 when I first joined the volunteer ranks of Guatemala's voting system. The way that voting works in Guatemala is a civilian army is conscripted every four years and called upon and given custody over everyone's ballots. And I went through that experience in 2011 and 2015 in two elections. And I just fell in love with the process. It really helped me understand the value of proof of work as a consensus algorithm and helped me differentiate why proof of work is so valuable as opposed to proof of stake. And so Guadalam.”

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  8. “Appreciate it. It's a long time listener, big fan of your work, so very much appreciate the opportunity to share with your audience.”

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