No, blockchain isn't the answer to our voting system woes

No, blockchain isn't the answer to our voting system woes

6 years ago
Anonymous $yysEBM5EYi

https://www.cnet.com/news/blockchain-isnt-answer-to-voting-system-woes/

Startups including Votem, Voatz, Follow My Vote, Boulé, Democracy Earth and Agora are developing and promoting blockchain-based voting systems. They think blockchain, a system for securely sharing a database of records across a network of computers, could be as a big deal in voting as advocates expect it to be in shipping, money transfers, property records, and the job it was invented for, recording transactions with cryptocurrency like bitcoin.

"We range from being skeptical to being very skeptical about it," said Maurice Turner, senior technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a nonprofit that tries to ease problems at the intersection of society and the internet.