Thank you so much for providing this information and for your continued engaging - I love hearing your insights and it's very relieving to see this evidence that voting fraud is far less prevalent than most might think. I think blockchain technology could be a great fix for the voter trust issue IF people in fact understand how those technologies worked. Ultimately, it seems it may shift the issue from being a distrust in people (politicians, the people-driven voting process, etc) to a distrust in the technology that would be driving the process in the case of blockchain. Your insights bring into view just how complex these issues truly are, as even a technology that could possibly eliminate the possibility of voter fraud may not eliminate the overarching issue of voter distrust (which I agree with you is ultimately the big picture issue with our system, at least in the USA). Again, thank you for your response and we are grateful for your continued support!
You may be right about that overlap... Funny story actually: I technically co-founded a startup when I was in Silicon Valley that solves another government problem, identification documents being easy to falsify, destroy, steal, or lose. The idea was to create a platform that issues government IDs (think license, passport, social security card) as NFTs, which are by definition verifiably yours, unable to be falsified, unable to be lost or stolen, and far more secure than a physical paper ID. At the time, we thought it was a crazy idea that would be next to impossible to implement, but when we dug into our research, we found that there were several companies that had already started working with governments to do exactly that. The reason why I bring it up is, although the use of blockchain for elections seems far-fetched right now, these new technologies are slowly creeping their way into adoption, even by governments which are traditionally quite technically inept. Who knows what the future may hold? It is fun to speculate at least. Huge credit to James for an interesting topic, and I'm sure he will dive into several more like this one
Hey Andy,
Thank you so much for providing this information and for your continued engaging - I love hearing your insights and it's very relieving to see this evidence that voting fraud is far less prevalent than most might think. I think blockchain technology could be a great fix for the voter trust issue IF people in fact understand how those technologies worked. Ultimately, it seems it may shift the issue from being a distrust in people (politicians, the people-driven voting process, etc) to a distrust in the technology that would be driving the process in the case of blockchain. Your insights bring into view just how complex these issues truly are, as even a technology that could possibly eliminate the possibility of voter fraud may not eliminate the overarching issue of voter distrust (which I agree with you is ultimately the big picture issue with our system, at least in the USA). Again, thank you for your response and we are grateful for your continued support!
~Jason
You may be right about that overlap... Funny story actually: I technically co-founded a startup when I was in Silicon Valley that solves another government problem, identification documents being easy to falsify, destroy, steal, or lose. The idea was to create a platform that issues government IDs (think license, passport, social security card) as NFTs, which are by definition verifiably yours, unable to be falsified, unable to be lost or stolen, and far more secure than a physical paper ID. At the time, we thought it was a crazy idea that would be next to impossible to implement, but when we dug into our research, we found that there were several companies that had already started working with governments to do exactly that. The reason why I bring it up is, although the use of blockchain for elections seems far-fetched right now, these new technologies are slowly creeping their way into adoption, even by governments which are traditionally quite technically inept. Who knows what the future may hold? It is fun to speculate at least. Huge credit to James for an interesting topic, and I'm sure he will dive into several more like this one