No matter how much you love this particular data structure, and no matter how much it might seem at first like it's "perfect" for it, civil voting just isn't a good application for blockchain
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Why is blockchain voting a dumb idea? Glad you asked. For starters: - It doesn't solve any problems civil elections actually have. - It's basically incompatible with "software independence", considered an essential property - It can make ballot secrecy difficult or impossible.
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Speculation: the the vast majority of people advocating for blockchain-based election systems have a lot more experience and investment in the "blockchain" part than the "election" part.
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A blog post on this from you would be very enlightening and help me understand and explain in my local community some of the *specific* technical issues with blockchain voting - currently many still think blockchains ‘make trust’ and other super vague high level ideas...
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What’s your opinion on using it for blockchain-native activities, like token-curated registries?
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That sounds like an application that doesn't have nearly as many requirements as civil voting.
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what are the problems civil elections actually have? this is a difficult topic to research without prior expertise or guidance
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Matt wrote a lot about this subject, maybe this paper will help https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Blaze-UPenn-Statement-Voting-Machines-11-29.pdf …
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but, but, but, blockchain! It goes to 11!
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TY so much for bringing this up - technologies != fixing the problem
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