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POLL QUESTION:
Would you like to participate in a blockchain voting experiment/trial?
Do you think blockchain voting is a good idea/should be further explored for implementation in our elections?
It would not be without effort, or cost, but I could set up a blockchain vote that us DP members could participate in, so you real people can gain first hand experience. Their is no learning like doing, especially in crypto.
It sounds so complicated until you just do it..
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/blockchain-technology-key-secure-online-voting-1435443899
There are,** however, increasing examples of political organizations and technology startups experimenting with secure digital voting systems based on the use of Bitcoin’s blockchain technology. Last year Denmark’s Liberal Alliance became the first political party to vote using a blockchain-based system for its internal elections. Similar systems have since been adopted in Norway and Spain and the movement is gathering momentum in the United States.“There is a common misconception that voting cannot be done online in a secure way. However, the introduction of blockchain technology is changing the conversation,” Adam Ernest, CEO of Virginia-based FollowMyVote – an organization committed to developing an online open source, transparent voting platform – explains.Just as Bitcoin users make transactions by sending the digital currency to the recipient’s digital wallet, blockchain voting systems involve creating wallets for each candidate or option in an election. All voters are then allocated a digital "coin" that represents one vote, which they can cast by sending their "coin" to the wallet of their choice.As in a bitcoin transaction, the entire process is recorded in the blockchain public ledger, meaning that unlike most current elections, a voter can verify that his or her vote was actually counted.
Democratic and efficient: Is blockchain voting our future? | Coinfox
Blockchain voting is a dream shared by many, libertarians and bitcoiners alike. Ideology aside, blockchain voting is safe, transparent and cheap. It also seems to be inevitable.
As the US presidential primaries run their course, the US electoral system and the use of electronic voting machines are once again the focus of public criticism.
“Until the codes are open-sourced, there should be no electronic voting machines. Allowing private companies to count our votes with secret programs is just stupid as well as anti-democratic. Paper card stock ballots that are counted by machine are okay, since they can be hand counted to verify the machine count accuracy in close races.”
“Older machines can also have serious security and reliability flaws that are unacceptable today. For example, Virginia recently decertified a voting system used in 24 percent of precincts after finding that an external party could access the machine’s wireless features to record voting data or inject malicious data.
Smaller problems can also shake public confidence. Several election officials mentioned “flipped votes” on touch screen machines, where a voter touches the name of one candidate, but the machine registers it as a selection for another.”
“It would be possible to see how many votes were cast, voters could verify that their own votes were counted, and the decentralized network would be the best answer so far to hacking attempts. Combined with the political thought that's gone into systems like Liquid Feedback, there's a starting point here for putting political questions to the public much more frequently and ambitiously,”
Counterwallet: Vote with Tokens | Counterparty
Verifiable Voting with Tokens
Counterparty supports voting through user-created tokens, as well as broadcasting information onto the Bitcoin blockchain. This means that you can post the terms and options of your vote as a broadcast, and let users vote on its outcome with full transparency by using tokens.
Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize liberty in many many ways, currency and voting are just 2 examples of many..
Would you like to participate in a blockchain voting experiment/trial?
Do you think blockchain voting is a good idea/should be further explored for implementation in our elections?
It would not be without effort, or cost, but I could set up a blockchain vote that us DP members could participate in, so you real people can gain first hand experience. Their is no learning like doing, especially in crypto.
It sounds so complicated until you just do it..
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/blockchain-technology-key-secure-online-voting-1435443899
There are,** however, increasing examples of political organizations and technology startups experimenting with secure digital voting systems based on the use of Bitcoin’s blockchain technology. Last year Denmark’s Liberal Alliance became the first political party to vote using a blockchain-based system for its internal elections. Similar systems have since been adopted in Norway and Spain and the movement is gathering momentum in the United States.“There is a common misconception that voting cannot be done online in a secure way. However, the introduction of blockchain technology is changing the conversation,” Adam Ernest, CEO of Virginia-based FollowMyVote – an organization committed to developing an online open source, transparent voting platform – explains.Just as Bitcoin users make transactions by sending the digital currency to the recipient’s digital wallet, blockchain voting systems involve creating wallets for each candidate or option in an election. All voters are then allocated a digital "coin" that represents one vote, which they can cast by sending their "coin" to the wallet of their choice.As in a bitcoin transaction, the entire process is recorded in the blockchain public ledger, meaning that unlike most current elections, a voter can verify that his or her vote was actually counted.
Democratic and efficient: Is blockchain voting our future? | Coinfox
Blockchain voting is a dream shared by many, libertarians and bitcoiners alike. Ideology aside, blockchain voting is safe, transparent and cheap. It also seems to be inevitable.
As the US presidential primaries run their course, the US electoral system and the use of electronic voting machines are once again the focus of public criticism.
“Until the codes are open-sourced, there should be no electronic voting machines. Allowing private companies to count our votes with secret programs is just stupid as well as anti-democratic. Paper card stock ballots that are counted by machine are okay, since they can be hand counted to verify the machine count accuracy in close races.”
“Older machines can also have serious security and reliability flaws that are unacceptable today. For example, Virginia recently decertified a voting system used in 24 percent of precincts after finding that an external party could access the machine’s wireless features to record voting data or inject malicious data.
Smaller problems can also shake public confidence. Several election officials mentioned “flipped votes” on touch screen machines, where a voter touches the name of one candidate, but the machine registers it as a selection for another.”
“It would be possible to see how many votes were cast, voters could verify that their own votes were counted, and the decentralized network would be the best answer so far to hacking attempts. Combined with the political thought that's gone into systems like Liquid Feedback, there's a starting point here for putting political questions to the public much more frequently and ambitiously,”
Counterwallet: Vote with Tokens | Counterparty
Verifiable Voting with Tokens
Counterparty supports voting through user-created tokens, as well as broadcasting information onto the Bitcoin blockchain. This means that you can post the terms and options of your vote as a broadcast, and let users vote on its outcome with full transparency by using tokens.
Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize liberty in many many ways, currency and voting are just 2 examples of many..