BLOCKCHAIN

Blockchain Voting Is The Future

2016 was a demonstration of deep-seated problems; 2020 has brought more problems but also possible solutions.

2016 was a historic election. The second race in two decades to be decided in favor of a candidate for President of the United States of America against the popular vote placed Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Four years later, we sit in the worst economy of our lives — but we’re more worried, on the average, about the pandemic sweeping the land that has already killed nearly a quarter million US Citizens. Do we still need the electoral college at all? What would it look like, if we were to do away with it?

A few remarkable innovations are already set to change the game here. Most significantly, the USPS filed a patent last month for a blockchain voting system which would use randomly generated QR codes to link individually registered voters to a database in which anonymized hashes would be presumably tied directly to votes up and down the ballot. However, the innovation does not stop there. This year, the AP is going to partner with Everipedia to publish election calls to the blockchain. The main benefit is that the calls will be rendered immutable — no one, neither Trump nor his most creative and motivated supporters nor Vladimir Putin…