Can Blockchain Technology stop Election Malpractice?

[Debonaire217]

Basically, yes, but I am still wondering why not every country implements this on action. They are still using their own methods and keep on making the people believe how transparent and secured it is which is in fact for me, their action in that way already decreases their reputation. That is the reason why I don't vote when there is election. But with blockchain being used as the core backbone system for the election, I think it's time for me to believe that my vote has a power to elect someone I think is good.

In short, blockchain technology indeed, provides reputable election system.

[kryptqnick]

My consideration is this:
I believe the blockchain technology can be applied in election processes, so that we can solve the problem with many elections malpractices such as hacking of election documents in developed countries and rigging of election results in developing countries.

But the bottleneck is this. How can we know exactly those that vote being that the addresses make people to be anonymous?

How can we solve this anonymous issue when applying this technology to election processes?

Kindly drop you opinion on this issue.

Blockchain and elections is not a new topic. In fact, there have even been serious talks over the years in different countries about considering implementing it (the country I remember is Russia with the primary election of some party). I think it should not be hard to implement (if you don't count the part where you have to make it user-friendly, ensure that people do vote and, most importantly, explain how this is actually a more accurate and definitely very safe way of counting the votes). It will be centralized and every vote has to be linked to an official ID number or something more sophisticated, ensuring that you have the right to vote). Your ID won't be public, it can be encrypted, but it will be inside of the system. I am not sure it's an efficient way to organize the election, but it might be something we get to see in the future.

[online73]

Hello everybody. I think that any technology for protecting election results invented by a person can also be deceived by a person. Any election company is a scam. For truly democratic elections, a high political culture is needed. When in the pre-election debate, the rivals use the technique of denigrating each other, like - a fool .., a fool himself. Here, no blockchain will help. I’m even afraid that God will come down to us as an observer for the elections; these devils in election commissions will still find a way to deceive.

[vicoma]

It will greatly help to combat the malpractice experienced in the democracy. With blockchain, true winners will emerge in every aspect since it is transparent and tamper-proof. I am looking towards that time that government will embraced blockchain to conduct election

[turkandjaydee]

I don't see how your idea solve anonymity & identity linked problem. Besides, relying on another database managed by government makes the whole idea useless since you need to trust government not to manipulate the database to manipulate the election.

Yeahh I know this is a bit too hard for you to understand because maybe I am not very clear explaining it.
At least this will make no one can do multiple votes and the voter identity will not be exposed because their address is only linked to a status whether it's true or false (already used or not).

I know this can work if at least we know how to make the other database cant be manipulated and transparent to people. We can make the "status of use" and the list of approved addresses separated into another database.
But for the national ID's database from the government, this is the only way to prevent the multiple votes problem.

[ampere]

Using the blockchain technology for election cannot stop election malpractice; it will only promote it even further.
Even with modern ways of voting as witnessed in the USA with SSN; malpractice still happens.

To use the blockchain; you need everyone to be vast or have an idea about how it works;
secondly, you need to find means to made the blockchain independent from its creators which can be impossible.

No country will allow a third party to handle its election blockchain
Who then will create the blockchain ? is it the ruling party ? or its opponent? or private citizen ?

[Wenbing]

I also believe that e-voting is a bad idea, blockchain (or any jargon) included. Here's the thing, you can't make sure somebody vote without knowing their identity at one point or the other, and who knows what exactly happens in the machine or the code itself. It is difficult to trust the code especially if the government is the one who made it. Somebody can cast doubt over the machine and then everyone would start doubting the entire election itself.

Tom Scott made a good video about this (about e-voting in general but I believe the risk is the same)[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs

The world systems can't remain rigid that's why we have technology invented with the purpose of disrupting or upgrading the traditional systems.

In this case, I believe e-voting powered by Blockchain technology is possible if we have independent community that'll be in charge of the process. This committee should be evaluated by another body in order to achieve the goal of devoting...

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No country will allow a third party to handle its election blockchain
Who then will create the blockchain ? is it the ruling party ? or its opponent? or private citizen ?

Yeah, that's the opposite of the idea. What's need is a multi -committee system were the composition consists of ruling party, opposition party, citizen etc. This will help to prevent unfair or shady acts by the members because they are from different group and with diverse ideologies.

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