Blockchain Voting - Immutable Election Results
So I've been getting a lot of messages on Twitter and LinkedIn, about how the
blockchain can materially affect the future of voting. A lot of people are
frustrated with the mail process and how it seems that the mail at very least
was slowed down, and people are reporting to me, based on some news sources that
the delivery rates and a lot of heavily left leaning counties and states have
been slowed down to the extent that less than 70% of pieces of mail are arriving
at their intended target. During the dates that they should be and for the USPS,
the typical delivery rate is well over 95%. So for under 70%. You know you're
talking about a considerable drop. And if you'll remember there was some cuts
that was there were instituted into the USPS. And a lot of the Democratic
leaders were talking about how that was used as a way to slow the mail. Or at
least, cut off some intermediary parties that expedited things so that is a
consideration and then also there. This is largely being done in states where
there is no grace period. And if it's not delivered on Election Day, then it
doesn't matter so what people are telling me is that certain, you know, whomever
are finding heavily left leaning counties and proceeding to slow the mail, so
that the MC ballots, which, you know, run heavily left leaning will not be
delivered in time and thus those votes won't be counted. So they're saying what
can we do with blockchain How can that be a solution to the problem that we're
having, and I think it comes down to, if the blockchain was ever integrated into
some sort of election, then you could do it using a few different consensus
mechanisms that would provide that trustless technology you know would take the
core issue of can this ledger be messed with can it be is it immutable or is
immutable, and will these numbers hang up and do we have confidence as the
public that when we are looking at a particular vote that it does reflect the
true sentiment of the voter. And as it stands with the payment rails out there
Bitcoin. And, you know, aetherium and all that. the amount of resources that it
would take to what's called rollback a transaction or do a double spend or
essentially messed with the technology itself is really high. So, it could be
done but you'd have to amass all of the available resources that are, you know,
put out there on the internet you have to have pools you'd have to really have
some coordinated attack the likes of which,
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you know, had never been seen.
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And I guess it would be possible but the way you can get around that for
blockchain voting is have a permissioned blockchain where the node holders you
know being trusted bodies that are transparent to the public are able to get one
portion of the ledger. And then it can be watched in real time. And, you know,
records of that will be put on what's called the ipfs. And so, it's not all
whole held up on one central server it's distributed through a number of
different servers. And with that, technology, you would be able to have people
checking and then people checking the people who are checking. And I think that
that's further, or closer than a lot of people anticipate as it is governments
are playing in a real way with central banks, using blockchain technologies as
you may know like large corporations are already using on a wholesale basis,
financial companies like JP Morgan are completely flipping on the issue of
blockchain for decentralized finance and otherwise, and, you know, to lead the
way in FinTech. So I think the horizon for blockchain voting is not that much
further along, and the possibility of it being instituted in the next few
decades, is high, and the consensus mechanisms, you know, the voting can be
done, you know, very easily. They have a bunch of id Software's out there that
are, you know, you can have it so that it reads your biometric information, you
can mean if you see a thing it's like id.me, you go on there and not only do you
have to have an ID, but you also have to have a phone that is taking a picture
of your face next to the ID, and then it gets all sorts of biometric information
there about your face and the face in the picture and all that so the
technology, I think, is there to prevent against some large scale, fraud. And
then, a lot of the attacks that are being done out there to get into these
corporate computers are pretty old attacks, you know DDoS is denial of service
attacks. These are 20 years old. And if you'll remember from a few years ago, a
lot of the passwords, many many thousands were just in a dot txt file on one of
the Google, I'm sorry Facebook computers. So, the sophistication is very low,
even for a lot of these big companies that are you know Fang companies that are
in tech that are leading the tech revolution. So, if you go about it in a real
concerted way to have government embrace blockchain technology and make it so
easy for the consumer, so they can you know go to the library use a computer or
even using those polling computers because see when I voted yesterday. You went
in and it was all touchscreen and it looked like a really higher end computer a
higher and more higher end computer than I certainly had at the office. Um, so,
I think the opportunity is there. And then, yeah, maybe just a good government
contractor that can break it down and make sure that all of the i's are dotted
and the T's are crossed as it relates to compliance and cybersecurity best
practices, and you could have a much more trusted process, at a time when the
belief, and the trust in the voting process is understandably circumspect.
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