They filed the patent for this in February
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In theory this seems like a good idea but there are multiple non-secure layers before the vote hits the blockchain and who is gong to audit this?..... We figured this shit out long ago last century.... Big steel booth, that tallies to some oversized sheet of paper with levers for each candidate in each race, where there was zero doubt if you filled in the circle properly with no way to change or reverse engineer who you voted for...... And when you were done, you slid the big lever to open the curtain with the satisfying clunk to let you and everyone in the room know that your vote has been counted because this is America.....
I think blockchain as a chain of custody tracker (rather than a vote tallier) for ballots might work. Could be used to track printing, delivery to a polling place, it being filled in and returned to the poll workers, and all the steps along the way to it being actually counted.
The main failure mode of paper ballots is they seem to be "misplaced", or out of the blue some box of ballots no one seems to remember appears. This would make that harder to do and is about as much as I'd trust a software system to do correctly.
My only grievance with voter id has been voter anonmity, as voter id could potentially be used to target dissidents. If this system solves this issue, I call that a good thing.
That said,who wants to place bets this patent is only used to block other organizations from developing something similar so that our voting will be forever done by physical mail (and thus, be easily tampered with). Why else would the USPS file for this patent instead of, oh I don't know, the Electoral College?
It's the government granting itself a patent. They don't have to implement it, and block chain is just a buzzword to them.
Forging physical paper is hard work. The democrat establishment will click a button to win elections.
Forging is difficult, but "finding" troves of uncounted ballots is easy, and doesn't require control of the voting system. If the democrats had control, the Electoral College would already be compromised.
They are on the cusp of chinese style one-party rule. Bush made the security appartus that Obama used to purge the dissenters from government. Here they are laying the ground work to simply announce election victory without needing the election.
So they were planning this before the Rona hit us fully. Big think time?
I honestly couldnt care less all the major parties have allowed my country to be invaded.
No point voting anymore. All the parties only care about foreigners both here and abroad.
Postal voting was just a big scam to allow tribal politics to enter our political system. I cant wait to see all those white politicians ousted to make way. Hoisted by their own pertard.