A_D_E_P_T
4 hours ago
This may unironically be the best application for the Blockchain. Vote on permissioned-node-only chain --> 30 seconds where you can verify how your vote was recorded --> Vote anonymized but not stripped of all data --> a quorum of state/provincial election boards can audit the results as adversarially as they'd like. This probably needs to happen, as we're fast entering the "governments are just making things up and/or banning parties they don't like" phase.
codedokode
2 hours ago
With in-person voting you can see the voters and see that they are real people. With electronic voting, all you see is records in a blockchain, how can you be sure that they are cast by humans and not an AI-powered script? Or how can you be sure that when you click a button in a voting app, the vote is not changed in the process and your choice not reported to the government? Electronic voting systems are typically closed-source and server infrastructure not available for inspection.
Also one doesn't need to be a programmer to monitor paper voting.
Also, I do not see how blockchain can be used here. Are you suggesting that anyone, including foreign governments, can launch a node and "mine" votes? And whoever has more computing power, has more votes, like in Bitcoin?