Topic: Using of Blockchain in Election (Read 668 times)

So you will need to use a blockchain that has protection against DDOS attacks. Personally, I believe that it is not people but robots that should manage people because the human factor is too great for each individual taken. In the future, artificial intelligence on the blockchain will cope with this task much better than the people themselves. However, until this time, we should still live and do our best to translate this into reality.

Eehm... Blockchain will be good for voting but right now I don’t really know if we are ready to be making use of Blockchain for voting. I have read about it and the requirements is much, though it can be used in a simple way, but using it in a simple way means that it’s going to be easy for hackers to access. When using Blockchain for voting the voters are given tokens after they have verified their identity and the tokens are what they use in casting their votes. There have been some countries that have tested it out, just like Russia and some other organizations that have tried.

I think using blockchain in election is very good way because looks transparent for who the winner in election and will get very cheap cost each election process, most important is faster to know who is the winner in election system, I think my country have adopted blockchain in election way.

On the contrary, countries who rigged their elections will not suddenly adopt blockchain technology in their electoral process simply because the people behind will always wanted to continue their seat on the power, so I'm sure they are going to block (no pun intended) it by all means.

Blockchain has already been used in this scenario

A few American states like West Virginia have already tried it out for the US Congressional elections, if I'm not mistaken. And they are going to use the blockchain technology for voters outside the US territory (like the military and their likes) in the 2020 presidential election as well. Ironically, someone has also tried to hack the system and rig the results of the 2018 elections but failed miserably (well, as far as I know)

The most optimal option is to test the use of the blockchain in some not-so-large elections, as an alternative to simple voting in the precincts.
But countries in which they carry out falsifications, of course, will not accept such a system, or, they will try to somehow push it under themselves.

I suppose you know in countries that have not legalized the use of blockchain technology cannot adopt its use in an election. I believe the technology could be the best especially in countries that are known for massive rigging because I believe one of the features of them is an inability to manipulate data ones a smart contract is created and it could be a fastest and not too expensive way of voting.

I think it would be a good idea and planning that election process will continue with blockchain. But think it need more time to start blockchain technology in election because everybody are not more sound in blockchain technology but everybody will take challenge gradually as it is latest technology.

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Do you understand that people are just used to errors in current election system?
Blockchain elections for sure won't have same problems as our elections now, but for sure will have own problems that people will have to solve.
It's ok since blockchain ones are better and safer in the first place

This could be a great idea but, such ideas should be tested first to know its effectiveness for the voting system because, elections are a delicate system a society has, one error could cause negative impacts in it. One thing I think is the problem here is, about the people who have no internet connection or have no internet reception in their area. Online applications of votes could also be a subject to fraudulent acts that could hinder the true votes of the participants and might be manipulated in some ways.

I don't disregard this great idea but, I think not all society are capable or ready for this innovation.

indeed we must have breakthroughs such as the blockchain used for elections, because from experience, when the election is closed and followed by a quick count, justrupara candidates claim to win, and when the official results are announced the losing camp claims cheating, I think this is confiscating time, energy and of course cost. even a country can split

This was a great idea and must be apply to every country. As we can observe, this was a common issue today. When the election comes, we can hear issues about manipulation of votes and this was hard to avoid because sometimes the people involved are the ones who are in the government. With blockchain technology we can probably avoid these problems and can result to a fair election.

Yeah it does cost too much power but election will take place for only a week or less if we just want a fair election. Well it does make sense if we have our own blockchain during elections and the data being transferred to machines go directed to the blocks and viewable then I must say that we actually need it, we just need to execute it properly.

This explanation leaves a gaping void in your reasoning

If what you say is true indeed, how are cryptocurrencies using blockchain ever possible? They are real money (well, at least top cryptos), but if they required too much power to support them (read, money), it would absolutely defeat the purpose. Elections are typically not something which you run continuously 24/7 (unlike cryptocurrencies), so such reasoning doesn't make a lot of sense and is decidedly out of tune with existing realities

Yup, it is true that using blockchain could lead us to more expensive election but isn't it a wise move of doing the election? I mean if we could just do it then why not? If using blockchain is the key to a fair election, and electing those people whom people did vote true then why not? I think it is better than having the wrong person in the position especially when that person is corrupt. Blockchain is transparent, cheating is easy to see, I guess blockchain would really help a lot on election.

What do you mean hackers? If we could build a private network during election then we can create an invulnerable block to avoid hacking incidents, aside hackers do hate corrupt government.

Today, applying Blockchain to management is no longer a strange thing for us and many companies when it is really useful and creates certain effects, special feature transparency and limiting change, it makes this technology quite great for election. However, the idea and actualization will probably be more difficult when political issues are quite sensitive, there are dark sides to the electoral issue, and not everyone can apply this technology expertly and professionally, traditional electoral methods are probably simpler

Making use of blockchain for voting is probably not going to be a good idea. Yep, I know that a lot of people have been saying that, but I don’t really think that we have reached the level where we will be able to make use of blockchain in voting. I have read the processes that are involved and how the ‘key’ thing works. For it to be secured, the ‘keys’ that are given to voters will have to be a long one and that will require a lot of computer and enough energy to power it which will probably cost a lot of money, and that’s unnecessary.

There have been a test and the keys that were given to the participants were short which means that hackers can easily take over it. I’m not really good at explaining this, so I will advise you to do some research on Google and there will be some articles to explain it better.

A lot of big businesses and companies are already using blockchain technology and it is very effective for them to make a fast and secured transactions. So i think using blockchain technology for elections process could be efficient and convenient for every voters, but we should think of a proposal that will avoid frauds in voting elections, so that it would be better concept and proposal.

In my own opinion, using blockchain technology for voting would be very useful and convenient for everybody because they don't need to wait in lines and go outside just to vote that all they need is a smartphone or a computer. But it should be tested to know if it will be accessible, efficient and if it can aboid fraud or cheats in voting.

Useful for voting but too much risk, it is double because theres no tracking of records of whom the voters are. It is very hard to implement, it id likely giving new Identity to each and everyone of your people. How could you do that when there are already what they called voters I.D. and such. This is on a larger scale and it should run by the companies who are already knows and has experience on elections, contractors who uses new technology like smartmatic, maybe tweak them and use blockchain, maybe for now this is a proposal, and it is will have a hard time to be approved because the people who are currently on power will disagree. I like the idea of the block link to the national budget first rather than for voting, but a good concept though.

As far as I know some countries are considering posibility to use blockchain technology in election process. That sounds like a good idea however it must be tested in details. When it comes to election trust and security are very important and citizens must feel confident about such system and that is not easy to achieve, we all know that fear of manipulation is always present.

If there's no intervals from any government sectors then using blockchain is fits with this system, there are no manipulation that will take place,
knowing the computing factors of this chain, it will be a big help if this plan will materialized.
If the intentions is genuine this implementations will benefits every country that will embrace this system.

If a country is building a blockchain integrated in their election do you think that the network will be allowed to connect globally to be afraid of the DDOS attack, so we do not need to worry about that someone will game the system as everything will be registered in the blockchain and you cannot fake those registry and the biggest question will be whether a corrupted government will allow these to be integrated.

This is not impossible to happen since the blockchain technology is innovating as time passes by, I can say that maybe sometime if there are some projects will use this idea to their platform, it is good for everyone especially to those countries who are doing some elections to elect their presidents and any other person who is doing campaign. This can make the countings or any other things that are connected to the election. They should propose some attributes in which they can locate who is doing some flying votes which are not fair for those candidates who really fight with honesty.

Indeed, it might help every country and can make the election easier, and not only that, because of the blockchain technology, the cryptocurrency might get a lot of interest to those investors and any other businessman who knew about it, how good blockchain technology is, and how better to make some investments here with cryptocurrency.

I think we must test it and work through any issues there could appear. Offline elections are habitual, so are the manipulations of regular elections - imo we are not that critical on them as we are on blockchain's ones.
But offline elections has no potential unlike online ones.

These are some cons if votes would pass into a certain app on certain individual.I would rather prefer on having the same set-up of voting system which
voters would still need to go into the voting place and using up or registering up their votes into a particular machine which would register in blockchain.
Its a better option that having that individual voting yet we have seen the cons on using those apps or something related.

This is really needed since this is the first time we use that for election and might we will face some struggles for certain attacks,manipulation or others for this new innovation. But if this will work smoothly for sure blockchain technology will get a huge attention and might bitcoins an cryptocurrency will gain fame for this.

Blockchain and elections can be a great pair, but first, they need to be tested. Well, in any case, this version of the electoral system also has its drawbacks. Someone can arrange a DDOS attack by simply scoring the network so that it cannot process votes efficiently, or even gain access to part of the votes, and thereby undermine the election process.

With the aid of blockchain technology, it is really possible to have election using a blockchain based system. With its design, it would be hard for dishonest candidates to manipulate the data inputted by the person. It would record the vote of one person and that vote would remain as it is resistant to modification. Once used, it would be hard to alter the data without altering the succeeding data.

However, with such power of a candidate, he/she could do tricks just as to acquire power over people. Hackers could easily attack the votes, delete it or even manipulate. Regardless of the security of blockchain and its design, when there's will there's a way. And I think this is possible for using blockchain too. What we need are not misconceptions and doubts but actions and will. Not only to improve the current state of bitcoin's acceptance but for the country's sake as well as its people.

I do not think that governments can "control" blockchain, they can create it but blockchain is designed to be transparent and it is designed to be decentralized. Which means if elections are ever on blockchain it could be the fairest election ever with everyone being able to check whats going on and if there is anything abnormal then should be people can show it with proof. The problem is not elections anymore, it is more about social engineering now.

There are so many factually wrong stuff going around for the nominees that Trump basically got elected on full of lies, when it was about LGBT he showed the rednecks how he is against it with ads addressed to them and he showed how he supports them to LGBT ads addressed to LGBT. When it is farmers he addressed them differently when it is trade wars he addressed differently.

So, even if elections are fully fair, we now have news and ads all election engineered into winning and doing whatever politicians wants.

I love the idea until I saw this article:

Flaws in the blockchain app some states plan to use in the 2020 election allow bad actors to alter or cancel someone’s vote or expose their private info.


https://threatpost.com/hackers-can-seize-control-of-ballots-cast-using-the-voatz-voting-app-researchers-say/152883/

So as the research says, it could be a bad idea to let people vote using some apps. So they might intercept it before the vote can be written to the blockchain. So for now, there are more questions and cons against it. And we all know that once it is written in the blockchain it can't be change.

You definitely need blockchain where transactions cant be linked like Monero blockchain for votings. We dont want to see that everyone knows who you or anyone else voted for.

When they start learning how to airgap stuff then I'll agree with you on that one...

At the moment most "experts" are merely people that have tricked others into thinking they know better. Nothing will ever be completely safe, especially if the government controls it, and saying something will be is just making it more interesting for people to hack to vote themselves in...

It is not the only issue

However, personally, I think the advantages and benefits still massively outweigh possible drawbacks and hiccups. If we take your example (as an example), handing over the keys could unleash all sorts of potential problems for the management of that company (as well as their staff who agreed to give up their keys) once it becomes known

But in essence it is not particularly different from just telling or hinting how your employees should vote. So even in this "use case", or rather misuse and abuse, blockchain proves to be a step forward as it allows to catch these influencers red-handed

The problem I see with a voting system like this, is if it is government controlled. So, once a government is in control of the Blockchain and the mining and also the protocol development, they can manipulate it. We have already seen governments wanting to create their own Blockchain based Crypto currencies that are stripped of all anonymity, so are we going to see a voting system going that same route?

How do you implement a voting system that are done on a Blockchain, without identifying the actual voters and still having a reliable and trustworthy system that cannot be cheated and manipulated? Yes, you can go on total vote count and whatever is done on the centralized Blockchain, but how do you tackle the voting for separate provinces or states on a single Blockchain?

No government is going to implement these blockchain technology based voting system right away with the current-state where it is today. We have super brains and super cops to fine-tune the system from its today's state to possible "production-ready" state.

It is too early to conclude like "it has flaws hence it may get misused; let's stick with what we already have". Technology will self-reevaluate to make us adopt them without complaining till then let's watch or if possible let us contribute toward building them rather than criticizing.

Yes, this is how we do have new systems and technologies. I strongly believe the concept is more important and making it practical/implemented will happen over the time by slowly eliminating all the pitfalls.

Blockchain is one of the fastest transactions today and many people are using the cryptocurrency and we all know that the market price of the crypto today and many people would like to include in the world of crypto. Also, it is a good chance that bitcoin or crypto is use for the campaigns for election because there is a lot of earning with the use of it but also it benefits only to the people who are know how to use of crypto but still if we use of it this can be used to manipulate the votes because it is a big market value and it can change a lot of votes and decision. Still, we are looking for good use of blockchain for the elections.

I can see the potential of blockchain if it is to be used for election. The main feature of blockchain is its decentralization and publicity of records wherein people can see the full results of election without relying to any third parties or people who can be manipulated using the old voting system. My only concern is that, what if manipulation comes to the people who will vote? We all know that politicians or someone who wants power will always do their best no matter what it takes just to gain that power. Well we can't really do something about that, no matter how good a system is, it will still be the greedy one who will win in the end. Sad but true.

indeed there was already a thread that discussed it, but I admit that with the blockchain that is used for elections, it will get many benefits, in addition to accurate and fast counting, we do not encounter fraud in vote counting. I hope this can be applied immediately, especially for a country with many inhabitants

This is more of a "big country does it so small country follows it" type of deal and not the other way around. If some small nation does this that will not have a huge impact on the world politics, however if huge nations like USA starts doing it, that could change some stuff.

However, looking at those nations we see a lot of election fraud going on which is done by people who exactly profits from the election fraud, so someone who wins illegally won't put in a motion to make the elections more transparent, that would result with them losing. So in the end, we are looking at bad people to not do bad stuff yet again in politics and we all know how that goes on, it doesn't really do well. That is why I do not see it becoming federal at any level right now.

Even though this idea is not new, but it is not been implemented in many places of the world. If blockchain is used in election, there will be no tempering or manipulation in the results of the election. This would be a perfect system of choosing the political party fairly.
Also i assume that those countries where there is a lot of fraud in election process, they will not agree to adopt this method easily.

I believe that using the blockchain in the election of the country's leadership or for holding referenda will lead humanity to a more democratic system, since no one can fake the results of the will of the people.  Well, since the possibilities of the blockchain diverge from the new views of governments or existing clans, it is unlikely that in the near future we will see the realization of such an idea of ​​using blockchain in elections.

The truth is that the world is really not ready to be making use of Blockchain for voting. Do you even know voting with Blockchain works? A few tests has been done in some countries like the US and Russia, and that shows how the process works. Voters will need to upload their government issued ID and a selfie, the technology then scans the ID and the selfie they uploaded to check whether they match.

When it’s confirmed it will be authenticated as eligible and the user given a token that they will use in voting for their favorite candidate (the candidates are assigned particular addresses). The voters use the token to vote and they remain anonymous. But according to one of my research we need advanced computer systems to be able to use Blockchain for voting.

Yeah it may not make bitcoin any stronger but the fact that the countries all around the world will adapt to blockchain will make a big impact to the cryptocurrency world, having blockchain used in different systems not only in voting will somehow make bitcoin and cryptocurrency have some weight in the interest of people because blockchain was used in crypto and they can ignore about that. Blockchain make systems more fair and convenient.

both arent bad actually   . if everyone is honest people wont switch to newer system but no , thats why they upgrade to have a better security  .

yes   . i already heard of it before many times before this one but the question is thier local implement it already  ? im waiting for someone that have a guts to try one out .

anyone can cast a vote online even without blockchain but by using blockchain , it can make the voting more secure and free from frauds  .

If electronic voting is bad, what is better? Paper ballots?
Using blockchain in election isn't very new idea.
India’s citizens will soon be able to cast votes from outside their city of registration thanks to a blockchain-based system: https://cointelegraph.com/news/indias-citizens-will-vote-with-blockchain-election-commissioner-says

Shouldn't be left for "someone" to develop. It should be developed transparently. Stuff like election (and other public matter)  too delicate to be left in the hands of one person or few people to manage in non transparent manner. I don't see why it can't be developed transparently. I am not sure I wouldnt trust any election material that is developed in the dark.
   

Blockchain election system can be quite profitable for us - people by clarifying the election process.
But I've seen some people making hype about everything with "blockchain" label on it because it is about adopting technologies.
I personally don't think that blockchain elections will make bitcoin any bit stronger

I believe that the similar functionality offered by the blockchain technology is necessary first of all to countries in which election fraud occurs.
However, there is another side - states that falsify elections are not profitable to hold fair elections using blockchain technology.
At the same time, a democratic and private state that does not falsify such a system does not need so much.
The authorities of the countries of the third world will remain at a low level of development until the moment the current authorities are replaced.

Using blockchain in election doesn't mean that it will literally remove all election fraud. But adopting this technology can definitely improve the system of election. Less mistakes and failures from the system they're currently using. In my country, during elections we often experience machine failure it's because of the lack of development. There will always be manipulation when it comes to election because of those greedy people but I believe that it will lessen these kind of things.

I read that many states are now planning to use blockchain technology in order to switch to an electronic voting system and forget about paper ballots. My country is also actively discussing this issue. As with all innovations, there are great advantages and some disadvantages. Of course, electronic voting greatly simplifies the voting process and is less costly. Blockchain technology creates additional conveniences and reliable guarantees for election participants in the transparency of this process. However, any technology cannot be absolutely immune from various abuses. Paper ballots make it possible to recount votes if there are reasonable doubts about the objectivity of the election process. With the electronic version of voting, probably only a re-vote is possible. Well, technological progress is irreversible, let's see how it will look in practice.

There must be a research to actually use blockchain technology in voting, it could be that what is targeted or expected from use it not as easy as tought.
One of the goals is to minimize manipulate voting but using the blockchain the chance still exists becuase it could be that the voters are not the actual voters.
Sometimes the traditional way is far more effective to resolve a case than forcing a technology to be applied which may not be suitable in that case.
My country should be the first country to use it, but the problem is harder than using the old system because citizen or area that far away from election place also not yet familiar with cellphone and the internet connections.

Perhaps, if the world isn't using blockchain based voting systems which has the capability to make the most secured voting system, there is a problem within the body that approves the use of it in the country. There might be a reason that politicians themselves doesn't really want to have this kind of system in a sense that they don't want an absolute system that maintains integrity and for them to have the chance to fabricate voting results. In some other reason, it might need additional time to beta test to ensure that the system would work.

@hatshepsut93 I saw the 2nd video, Tom made a couple of interesting points which I do agree on but right at the end, he went on to promote Dashlane... LMAO... Kinda seems ironic, he gave an example of a man hearing your voting result and saying just Trust me... Same is the case with Dashlane, Let us generate these "Random" passwords for you and let us handle it in the CLOUD... What can go wrong LOL... Anyway, I still want to point out that there is no benefit of using Blockchain if the public won't participate in "mining". If the "mining" is being done by the Electoral Commission, there is nothing stopping them to manipulate the blockchain, Basically do the 51% attack themselves... Unless you can make your voters participate in the "mining" which will be a monumental task to pull off... there is no way of proving that the results weren't manipulated even if the blockchain is used and by making your voters the miners this opens up another can of worms which is these people will most likely be mining on PCs infected by malware and other backdoors so yeah I agree with Tom, Electronic voting is not easy to pull off and we should stay away from it for now at least...

Electronic voting is a real world application utilized in elections for decades now. Its not a theoretical vaporware pipedream scenario, in the way that many seem to mistakenly believe current day voting systems are still exclusively paper trail based. Its a common and ubiquitous aspect of elections and politics throughout the world. Blockchain based systems can carry advantages in insuring the integrity of data, if they are implemented correctly. And if they are complimented by solid end user authentication systems such as voters being required to provide ID to vote.

India itself may be too polarized a setting to implement a secure electronic based voting system.

There are too many conflicting political interests for something as important as a national voting system to be developed independently without some bias being built into it. I think for something like this to work, it would need to be developed and implemented independently by someone who can objectively look at things and ensure the design fits the theory of how such a thing should be built.

At the very first view of it, we can see the good points of it but until it hasn't been tested and tried, we will not see the other implications of it.
There's pros and cons of it but we would like to see a partial trial of it or probably with an official election even from company's board of election to see how the results are and then next to the possible true election of government officials.

Apart from the distance which might not make some people vote, another major reason is their vote might not get counted due to some malpractice but nobody can do that with blockchain. It will be good if this can be adopted by the Government of all categories for a fair and free election. People will be more than willing to cast their vote since there is a high degree that it will get counted

It's a good appliance for block technology, everything is more transparent, each vote ca be traced and, i guess, it's more democratic compared to the traditional way.

Good ideas when blockchain technology adpted in election system, right now many countries always use bad system when election time, we do not know who is the winner because system look old and not allowing with digital technology era.

Of course, blockchain could be a great system but you are forgetting that almost all the political leading parties of the world know the fact that they are not liked as soon as they take up offices, that is why they try to meddle with the elections as much as possible, if all nations had 100% voting with all the information out on the open with absolutely no election fraud at all, that would result with elections going to a different party every single time, this is not about left or right or anything else, whoever is the leader at that moment will lose their seat next election and whoever wins that will lose after that because politicians are politicians and they will never be loved by the 100% of their nations.

That is why I doubt anyone will be making blockchain voting something common in the world, there could be part applications but it will never be 100% blockchain based.

In Ukraine, a test vote was conducted on the basis of Blockchain back in 2018. This test was conducted in conjunction with the TEAM Foundation, which provided the XEM cryptocurrency for transactions. The NEM blockchain was also used in the 2014 Ukrainian Presidential elections to preserve the protocols of election commissions.

As far as I can remember, Japan did a similar blockchain voting, but I assumed it is just a test, In a First, Japanese City Deploys Online Blockchain Voting System.

But I don't know if this is going to be an effective tool for lets say third world countries with a huge population. I think we need further study about this one, and weigh everything before being implemented to a major elections.

Unfortunately this is a good idea but how are you gonna talk with people who doesn't even own mobiles and all ?
Considering the country of India itself.
Population of India is 1.339 billion
269 million people are living below poverty and this is only the governmental estimation .
Most recently 66.40% of the Voters Voted according to the old norms .
Also one should consider how blockchain is not completely hidden , it is rather a serious matter In certain states , the reason the identity of a person is hidden is too serious for us to understand completely.

Let it be hidden, I would say .

If they can perfect the system using the blockchain for election then I would say this is the best method to be use in election.
Everyone of us just want to see real transparency as we all know that blockchain are transparent, so I'd go with this as long as it's carefully studied to protect the real result of the voting.

I have not enough technical knowledge on blockchain but I think blockchain are suppose to be transparent so it's a better system compared to the system a certain company created which are centralized and controlled by them, it's like a business of trust but blockchain is more transparent, so which one we should choose.

Interesting. But I think this sort of thing should be built transparently and by everyone. Things like election hardware and materials need to be open sourced and probably built by the community. I don't really believe that non open source hardware should be trusted in decentralized communities. Hopefully crypto communities will begin to depend more on open source hardware and less on hardware that aren't transparently built. 
A true Blockchain election could still be abused in centralized settings

Well they've also had a successful limited test run with mobile blockchain voting, which is something I suppose:


I know the sample size is incredibly small, but the fact that it actually worked could also mean that it can scale. I completely agree that deploying it in a large scale immediately is a horrible idea, but a few breakthroughs here and there could make them plausible in the future.

Electronic voting is bad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

Blockchain can't fix it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs&t

If some country said that they'll implement blockchain voting, I'd be really worried about potential voting fraud. I won't even be surprised if in some near future dictators like Putin will use blockchain to "prove" the world that they are fairly elected. The US quite recently demonstrated how messy electronic voting can be, and blockchain could make it even worse.

Blockchain also introduces a lot of new attack surface, because its still an unproven technology. Everyone remembers the DAO fiasco, now imagine an election getting hacked and forced to be re-run, wasting millions.

Yes, the technology of blockchain is a useful tool to fairly moderate an election [Public ledger].
I just try not to be off topic.
As "blockchain" is like many other technologies (methods) used to run an election. It can be used for great wills but can be also manupilated for oriented purposes.
If we can specify what kind of elections we want to use a powerful tech like "Blockchain", then it would be easier to determine if we can properly use it for good help. Otherwise, it's technically possible, but it's far from being that honest.

BTW, faking results can be easly made in almost the majrity types of elections even with a blockchain inplementation [i mean elections in large scales].

If they are planning to use blockchain technology for other things aside cryptocurrency then it will be a good news not only for cryotcurrency but technological progress as a whole. This just goes to show how powerful and capable this form of technology is. Given that it's really secure and could span out distances like a hot knife cutting through butter is amazing and could be one of the greatest inventions of our century. We just need a considerable amount of experts to notice the uses and benefits of implementing blockchain technology and the rest will follow. Really cool news.

Yeah blockchain voting isn't a very good idea. The issue is that someone can get hold of someone else's keys or companies could ask their staff to hand keys over or something else like that - which may go unreported...


Actually, why can't people vote in other towns? My firend voted in an election for a country 10000 miles from here by handing his ballot to the ambassador so not being able to merely move a registration from one twon to the next is rediculous.

In the UK (and probably other systems, votes are counted like this):
[quote link=https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/gla_migrate_files_destination/archives/assembly-reports-general-counting-the-vote.pdf]
3.1 Votes cast at any government election, general, regional, or local have traditionally been hand counted. The process is complex and laborious.
  • At the close of the polling stations each ballot box is sealed, and a statement of the number of ballot papers issued is attached.
  • The boxes are then transported to counting centres, emptied and sorted before hand counting begins by volunteers.
  • The number of votes recorded at the count is cross checked with the number of ballot papers issued, and any discrepancies are immediately investigated by the Returning Officer.
  • For ballot papers that are not clearly marked, have indeterminate markings or may be spoilt, adjudication takes place by the returning officer in consultation with political party agents.
  • Once the votes are collated the returning officer ‘declares’ the result of the election. 

3.2 Simply put, the electronic counting of votes (e-counting) replaces counting by people by counting by machines.
  • When the ballot boxes arrive at the count centres they are emptied and the ballot papers are fed into large scanners that check the authenticity of the papers, read off the votes cast and accumulate the votes electronically.
  • The number of ballot papers counted through the scanners is reconciled with the numbers tagged to the box.
  • If the scanners reject ballot papers because they have indeterminate markings or are spoiled then adjudication takes place by the returning officer.
  • Once the votes are collated the returning officer ’declares‘ the result of the election.
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If there machine is airgapped it'd be pretty impossible to hack it without being present in the same room as it and the counting is normally done in either public galleries or under the watchful eyes of teams of volunteers. It'd be hard to fake the result and probably not worth the effort (in at least several hundred counting centres).

One usage of blockchain technology is for voting yet the majority still doesn't use blockchain technology during elections.

Every election, we encounter some citizens who don't vote because of their reasons. It's either they don't want any candidate or they can't vote because they're living far from the voting places.
This can help those who have a problem with the distance from their house to the voting place and it's also a way to prevent multiple votings.

Source:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/indias-citizens-will-vote-with-blockchain-election-commissioner-says

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The plan of using blockchain technology in voting is to make it more convenient for others and to make it fraud-proof. During elections, we can really see a lot of things happening, especially for those candidates who really want to win so they will manipulate the result. But with blockchain, it will be hard for them to change and manipulate it. With this, we can achieve more transparency when it comes to the votes.

As a concerned citizen, I know what my country is facing, and I feel bad for our situation because those who don't deserve to be in the position are sitting prettily in their thrones. I really think that the different governments should try exploring this technology to help them because it will totally make things easier and more accurate than the usual system where they can cheat. The government shouldn't be afraid of trying it unless they want to manipulate the results.


Blockchain can be used in various field and one of that is voting. Although voting is one of blockchain's main usage, not everyone knew nor even aware of it. That's why further practices and studies should be done so they can maximize the use of blockchain technology. Just like what I have said, with this technology, it'll be easier to collect votes and it can't be easily manipulated by someone. I only have limited knowledge about the use-cases of blockchain and I still studying it.

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