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.