• non_burglar@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Yes, exactly.

    Block chain would have been an amazing solution to most democratic vote validation processes.

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      19 days ago

      It can still be used that way. While most people talk about how corrupt politicians enrich themselves with fake currencies, more legal and legitimate uses can still use decentralized ledgers for useful things. Of course these won’t make headlines.

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      18 days ago

      Aren’t votes meant to be anonymous to avoid retribution?

      Isn’t the public ledger identifying information to be used by authoritarian violence on every single voter in that case?

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        18 days ago

        Proposed ideas for block chain to maintain election integrity would only use a block chain ledger to verify counts, not store voter information.