This could be the future of voting, and perhaps one of the greatest uses of the blockchain. Hope it works! https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/06/technology/mobile-voting-west-virginia-voatz/ …
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Note: I’m not suggesting that *this* implementation could be the future (I’ve done no research on “Voatz”), but that technology can and will improve on the shortcomings of paper, solving both for convenience/turnout (to please Ds) and for integrity (to please Rs)
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Consider, Estonia has similar scale population and GDP as West Virginia, and has had smartphone voting for many years, successfully. (And they are moving to an internally-managed blockchain to decentralize public recordkeeping for audit purposes)
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(That said, Estonia is run on a much more secure digital ID system for the whole population)
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And, as others on this thread have pointed out, this particular implementation in West Virginia has some obvious flaws, but that doesn’t mean the actual concept is wrong.https://twitter.com/gossithedog/status/1026603800365330432?s=21 …
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@voatz is a fractal of incompetenceThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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