Well, it could theoretically be used to allow voting via an at home computer or cellphone without anyone being able to wine about security concerns, not that it'd stop them.
It's not gonna fix it because ultimately the powers that be can always just pull numbers out of their ass, but at least you can then track the fraud being committed (even if you can't do anything about it).
Taking the voting system, which is something almost anyone can understand see transparently, and putting it into the hands of a labour aristocracy is dumb.
The idea would be you send every "eligible voter" (whatever that means lol) an encrypted key to their mailing address.
You take that online, confirm it is you via a second authorization like SSN/ID, and then use that to add your vote to the chain.
It'd be on there in a few minutes, wouldn't require poll counters, and it could be accomplished on pretty much any device.
The key can't be spoofed, you can check on your own vote immediately, and it's very quickly added to the whole count.
I just see it as an all-around improvement over mail-in due to its quickness and it gets rid of any accusations of biased poll counters.
I don't really believe it would matter unless the system it was used under actually wanted a fair democracy though. It'd just be a convenient and secure way to go about it.
We have secure ways. Blockchain is a solution in search of a problem.
Well, it could theoretically be used to allow voting via an at home computer or cellphone without anyone being able to wine about security concerns, not that it'd stop them.
Idk if there's anything else like that yet.
We don't need to do that, you're searching for a problem.
Making sure every person can vote in a democracy is pretty important.
Blockchain doesn't accomplish that.
I just told you how it could though
Blockchain isn't going to fix deliberate voter suppression.
Oh yeah sorry, I meant using it under a different system entirely.
Like you could guarantee some despot isn't coming in and stuffing your ballots.
Obviously under this shit it is useless lol.
It's not gonna fix it because ultimately the powers that be can always just pull numbers out of their ass, but at least you can then track the fraud being committed (even if you can't do anything about it).
It doesn't guarantee the person at the other end of the transaction is the actual voter.
I mean unless you're purposely giving someone else your key it does. It's the same argument as the one against mail-in votes in that case.
Mail has a literal paper trail and destroying it would require a big physical operation all over the election area.
Taking the voting system, which is something almost anyone can understand see transparently, and putting it into the hands of a labour aristocracy is dumb.
Like I don't see it as a "fix", more as a potential way to go about elections that makes things easier for the voter.
It would absolutely do nothing to help the state of election under the US system.
The idea would be you send every "eligible voter" (whatever that means lol) an encrypted key to their mailing address.
You take that online, confirm it is you via a second authorization like SSN/ID, and then use that to add your vote to the chain.
It'd be on there in a few minutes, wouldn't require poll counters, and it could be accomplished on pretty much any device.
The key can't be spoofed, you can check on your own vote immediately, and it's very quickly added to the whole count.
I just see it as an all-around improvement over mail-in due to its quickness and it gets rid of any accusations of biased poll counters.
I don't really believe it would matter unless the system it was used under actually wanted a fair democracy though. It'd just be a convenient and secure way to go about it.