Blockchain or not there always be some way to manipulate election results. Democracy can be be abused, and we are seeing it everywhere.
Even if we could think of voting system insusceptible to manipulation by people who counts votes there is walkaways option to manipulate voters and people in more direct way.
Topic: Blockchain Mentioned As Way To Make Voting Secure at Libertarian Convention (Read 448 times)
May 29, 2016, 02:47:58 PM
May 29, 2016, 02:40:23 PM
Thats perfect and an obvious use for the honest people of the world.... However those that benifit most from the current system will never allow honest voting. You know the old saying? "If voting changed anything they would never let use do it".....lol 
May 29, 2016, 02:33:37 PM
Perhaps it can be done. But it doesn't interest me.
1) immoral. Voting by definition implies imposing one's values onto others and limiting their freedoms by way of government force. In a free society, voting would be a useless act as the government would have no power in the first place.
2) statistics. Except in small local elections your individual vote is basically irrelevant. statistically insignificant. People have a greatly inflated sense of "how much is my vote worth" that does not correspond to reality/math. Sadly this gives rise to "I will vote for the lesser of two evils" instead of "voting my conscience" because "I don't want to waste my vote". This flawed thinking maintains the status quo.
1) immoral. Voting by definition implies imposing one's values onto others and limiting their freedoms by way of government force. In a free society, voting would be a useless act as the government would have no power in the first place.
2) statistics. Except in small local elections your individual vote is basically irrelevant. statistically insignificant. People have a greatly inflated sense of "how much is my vote worth" that does not correspond to reality/math. Sadly this gives rise to "I will vote for the lesser of two evils" instead of "voting my conscience" because "I don't want to waste my vote". This flawed thinking maintains the status quo.
May 29, 2016, 12:46:43 PM
Voting over the Blockchain will make it a lot more transparent, but it will have to be made a lot simpler and easy to use for the average person on the street. You will have to write some sort of App to
interface with the Blockchain, but keep the identity of the voter anonymous to the public. The vote will only reflect a number linked to a identity. The identity should not be stored on a centralized
server, because that will reveal people's choice of vote. The Blockchain will only validate that your vote were counted.
.... Going to be a difficult to get this right.
interface with the Blockchain, but keep the identity of the voter anonymous to the public. The vote will only reflect a number linked to a identity. The identity should not be stored on a centralized
server, because that will reveal people's choice of vote. The Blockchain will only validate that your vote were counted.
.... Going to be a difficult to get this right. 
May 29, 2016, 12:06:53 PM
Interesting. However, I don't know how it could be put in practice, because if it works as a kind of coins with the sole purpose to vote, there might be sales of votes.
I think making distribution of those voting coin centralized like only creating total no of coin as total number of population and giving 1 coin to everyone every year with POS of 100% and sending that 1 coin will count 1 vote may be good idea if ever blockchain based voting is done. May 29, 2016, 10:03:03 AM
Im 100% guaranteed that in the future there will be a way to vote on the blockchain, and it will be the bitcoin blockchain because all other blockchains are a waste of time and stupid, so this will make bitcoin known all over the world since most people vote, and it will be on the news once the new system takes place.
May 29, 2016, 09:50:22 AM
When you look into the history of voting machines it's pretty mind boggling how shaky it is. In the UK it's always been nothing more than bits of paper.
May 29, 2016, 09:42:28 AM
Interesting. However, I don't know how it could be put in practice, because if it works as a kind of coins with the sole purpose to vote, there might be sales of votes.
May 29, 2016, 09:40:40 AM
Watching the Libertarian National Convention now and was please to see "blockchain" mentioned as a way to make voting more better and more secure. The crowd even cheered to the idea. No big deal really it just caught me by surprise and kinda cool.
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