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Continuing our "coverage" of the US midterms, we want to discuss how blockchain technology could have been used this time, ready for future elections in the United States. All right, it would have been a huge shock to find that blockchain technology would be used at this stage of the electoral process, but we believe there are a number of inherent advantages in the use of blockchain that would have made this kind of move quite adequate.
Unfortunately, due to the bad reputation of blockchain technology, we do not believe that the American people would agree.
Corrupted American elections
In the wake of President Trump's election, much news emerged stating that the elections were rigged. In fact, there has also been some evidence of tampering with the elections. Since we are not a political site, we do not want to discuss the legitimacy of this, but we do not want to discuss how the use of blockchain technology can guarantee that rigging is not possible, which means that the electoral process could be made more democratic. This is why we believe that the US electoral system would benefit from blockchain technology, if only to prevent people from raising allegations about the legitimacy of counting votes, etc.
Second Forbes:
"The allegations of fraud and external influence will continue to rise, even in advanced democracies, if we do not apply the technology to eliminate tampering.We need a platform that guarantees the correct registration of voters, identification and simplifies the process of counting of votes, all guaranteeing transparency to the results. "
Moreover:
"Electronic voting has become mainstream after the chaos that followed after the presidential elections in 2000. Many voters have been confused by the voting process on paper and by" butterfly votes ", resulting in a high number of allegedly misplaced votes. subsequent legislation on electoral reforms has led to the launch of electronic voting machines. "
Electronic and paper voting are now obsolete systems, but they are used all over the world. The demand on paper requires a lot of human intervention, time-consuming intervention costs money and leaves the system open to a lot of room for errors. A blockchain-based system would reduce the time needed to process votes and would also close that huge margin of error that exists in the United States and many of the world's voting systems.
According to Forbes:
"There are several emerging open source blockchain voting platforms." The advantages of an open source platform is that it is open and has no proprietary algorithms, allowing citizens and agencies to test functionality and improve security. "Many startups are focusing on open source online voting systems. "
Moreover:
"It is counterintuitive to focus on returning to a paper-based system to ensure integrity, ideally, this legislation should grant federal money that can be used for exploration and the piloting of online voting systems. on traces of paper to ensure authenticity, we exploit the power of technology such as blockchain.While it is too late to change the course of the mid-term elections, we must quickly focus on the 2020 elections. The future of our democracy counts on its. "
So how's it, the technology is there and it's ready to be used. Now it is simply a matter of convincing the authorities to make the best use of technology and to start exploring its uses. Once convinced the "highest", it will be much easier to convince the public that the way forward for the democratic vote is inside the blockchain.
