One benefit of blockchain is allowing extreme accountability, which seems to be a greater and greater requirement of democracy with large populations.
"But how secure and accurate was the 2018 vote? It’s impossible to tell because the state and the company aren’t sharing the basic information experts say is necessary to properly evaluate whether the blockchain voting pilot was actually a resounding success"
How would you conduct a similar audit of how secure a paper ballot is for any given system? If all you do is an audit of a single vote, then you're no different.
Until paper ballots can no longer be dumped in the trash, paper auditing is hard at best.
Every transaction is available to 7 billion people.
Vs paper voting which is only as legitimate as every voting station.
Precisely. It does nothing to address who can write to it. Ideally, it should be people who are eligible to vote (citizens of the country that are over 18 years old). That's a difficult problem to solve even with paper ballots (especially in a country that doesn't have national IDs), and pretty much impossible to solve with any sort of a digital solution.
> ...that everyone can see.
...or nobody can, as you'd see by reading the article that was submitted.
> Every transaction is available to 7 billion people.
7 billion people can see how to vote as well. You're not asking 7 billion people to vote, but a small subset of 7 billion people.
^ Love how simply put this is