>The initial seeding should also be public so the total amount of votes could be audited as well. It's possible to set it up so you can't ever create any new votes after the initial seed (this is possible in all current token schemes for example). I don't think this addresses the problem. In the US voter turn out is often 30-40% of registered voters. Total vote count would certianly not be a useful metric there.

I hate to be too pedantic about this but that's sort of the point. It doesn't sound like you're describing a blockchain anymore or at least getting any of the purported benefits of a blockchain. You have a central authority now setting up numerous separate instances, controling who gets the voting tokens, able to revoke and re-grant tokens at will, and in charge of setting and publishing the destination. The whole advantage of the blockchain is that there isn't a trusted 3rd party.

If you're already trusting the government you can do cryptographic hashing, a publicly readable database and build in a ton more transparency.