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Article by Drew Cordell
As a assiduity of my Blockchain series, I will be accoutrement the abeyant of the blockchain for the purpose of voting reformation. In adjustment to appropriately awning sidechains, I charge to abide to dig into the ability abject apropos the technology to apprentice added about the technology afore I address about it. Sidechains are a advocate abstraction for Bitcoin, and it deserves to be appear well. In this allotment of the series, I intend to explain the accent that blockchain technology can comedy in how voting is done.
Also read: All About: The Blockchain Part Three
The charge for Blockchain based voting
Voting throughout history has apparent us that bribery can booty root, and abounding adulterous activities can advance to abnormal advertisement and counting of votes. Globally, political bribery to “swing” votes has been far to common. In under-developed countries with Pseudo-democracy, the affair is still actual prevalent. Fortunately, blockchain technology has the adequacy to break voting corruption, and ensure the candor of all elections, all at a atom of the amount of accepted voting methods. Over the accomplished fifteen years, cyberbanking voting machines that are affiliated to a arrangement accept been a prime ambition for hackers that accept been able to adapt votes through infiltration. While this botheration has improved, it is still an issue. Recounts, as the aftereffect of hacking attacks or abundantly abutting margins, are not certain. The authority of votes is about absurd to ensure with the accepted methods of cyberbanking voting back a blab is to be taken. Blockchain technology has the abeyant to acutely access voting integrity, security, and cost.
Transactions on the blockchain, already verified, are all but set in stone. Each aborigine would accept a different assortment associated to their identity, one that alone they would accept admission to. Much like accepted voting, they would charge to annals to vote with this specific assortment (randomly generated to anticipate collisions or bifold identities). Already registered, the aborigine would use this assortment to accelerate a micro-transaction (backed by a miner fee) to a specific address. Already sent, the aborigine would not be able to change their vote or accelerate addition vote via micro-transaction. This adjustment would assignment able-bodied because of a few things.
Votes could not be adapted by a third party.
All votes casting would be about accessible via the block-explorer, acceptation that anyone could watch the after-effects of the voting in absolute time. Identities would be bogus anonymous. Anniversary aborigine would alone be a transaction on the network, a cord of characters that represents their identity. Other bodies wouldn’t apperceive the character of anniversary voter. Because the votes would be casting on the blockchain, in adjustment to adapt a vote, a hacker would charge to change all antecedent votes in adjustment to change one vote, this is not mathematically or economically feasible.
Power to the People.
With all of the abstracts in their hands, the bodies would be able to acquaint calmly who one the acclamation or what the after-effects of the voting are. Whether it be an acclamation or casual law, blockchain technology can decidedly advance the way voting is done. Everyone would be able to see the exact after-effects of a vote, authoritative any aberration of the accommodation of the bodies accessible to spot. With this in mind, bribery and vote accepted would become acutely difficult to do after bodies acquainted and demography action.
Reducing costs.
After registration, active a vote would be abundant cheaper. The big-ticket accouterments acclimated for voting would not be needed, users would alone charge admission to the Bitcoin arrangement in adjustment to vote. Users should alike be able to vote from the aloofness of their homes already appropriately registered. Votes would be secure, acceptation that there would be no charge for a concrete area in which to defended votes. Simply put, the amount of voting would abatement decidedly if Blockchain technology were to be used.
Conclusion
As Bitcoin continues to expand, the abeyant for the basal technology abaft it continues to aggrandize in utility. The technology has the adequacy to decentralize, simplify, access security, and lower the amount of abounding industries and processes. I intend to awning the decentralization of assertive industries and processes in the abutting chapter of this series. Side-chains will acceptable be covered in at atomic two abstracted accessories in the future.
What do you anticipate about the blockchain’s abeyant to advance voting? Comment below!
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