Conservative Publication Issues Apology to Dominion Voting Machines
@NewWorldOptimist (184)
January 15, 2021 2:15pm CST
Well, it's a start. American Thinker has retracted the statements it made about Dominion Voting Machines contributing to election fraud. However, I am still a big fan of decentralizing voting with blockchain voting. We can make it immutable (can't be changed), decentralized (no single entity has control), and easily verifiable as a public ledger.
The DoD and now the Navy have blockchain-based processes which lend value to the idea that blockchain is strong enough to be implemented in government and strong enough to secure our elections.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/statement.html
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
16 Jan 21
Can you please explain what you mean by blockchain voting?
I also wonder why Americans need to use voting machines in the first place. In most democracies you just put a cross on a piece of paper and drop it into a box. I have been involved for several years in the counting process - I have counted votes for national and local elections in Leicester (East Midlands, UK), and expect to do so again later this year. The counting process is strictly controlled, with no possibility of the result being anything other than fair and free from fraud of any kind.
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@NewWorldOptimist (184)
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16 Jan 21
Blockchain is a type of technology that is most commonly known as being the basis of Bitcoin, but its roots go much deeper as it is a type of Merkel tree (pardon the pun). We use Merkel trees all the time in our digital lives.
Paper voting is very easy to forge, miscount, and manipulate. That is one reason the machines started becoming popular years ago. But, even they have their issues, as we have seen.
Estonia uses something very similar to blockchain with their voting and access to government services. The benefits of this mean that your vote is guaranteed to be counted properly and logged in a ledger that cannot be changed.
