For years, my country Kenya has faced serious rigging claims in presidential elections. Many countries, such as Guetamala have tasted the pill. Come Bitcoin blockchain. It shows the timestamps when a vote is recorded. I tried using other blockchains like Ethereum but terribly failed to convince government officials. I hope I will do the same as Guetamala's Bitcoin case that uses a superior blockchain to show proof of vote...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @mallardshead 24 Sep 2023
Computer security and election experts have studied the feasibility of internet voting for over twenty years. A blockchain doesn't protect against the fraud of centralized elections. A strong legal system and well designed constitution can. A transparent blockchain offers no privacy of how a person votes. And how is that person represented on a blockchain in the first place? With a hexadecimal hash tied to a database? Whose database? Does everyone have to run a node to verify the data? What node software is required? If you can fit 3000 txs into a single block, and there's a block every 10 min, and you have 200M people voting, wouldn't that take over a year? And people have to pay to vote?
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 23 Sep 2023
When people will learn?
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and don't do stupid things?
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @JReeCoin OP 23 Sep 2023
But election rigging is commonplace everywhere...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 23 Sep 2023
stop bitching
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