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Kushan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

A Blockchain is part of a solution but not the whole solution. A Blockchain is for all intents and purposes a digital paper trail, something that high can be audited and cannot be modified later.

The problem is how do you use that system with a sceptical public that doesn’t understand or trust it. A technical enough person night understands it, but to the vast majority of people it may as well be “trust me, bro”. It’s a lot easier to trust a physicial piece of paper.

Not to mention that an important part of voting is anonymity, which a Blockchain doesn’t really give you. How do you validate that a vote on the chain is legitimate without some kind of trail back to an actual human?

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