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comment by firethief
firethief  ·  3894 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bitcoin Could Change Voting the Way It's Changed Money

Oh, I'd thought you were arguing against the technology.

Well I certainly agree that a lot of people won't trust it, and it may take quite some time before it will be popular enough to enter mainstream political discourse.





kleinbl00  ·  3894 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't have near the expertise to argue against the technology. I agree that there's no reason, technologically speaking, it can't work. However, it's the trust issues that are going to keep this out of serious consideration.

cgod  ·  3893 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Maybe some of our existing trust issues could help people come around.

kleinbl00  ·  3893 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was pretty big into Black Box Voting/Open Source Voting back in 2004; that election was straight-up stolen. Thing is, it was stolen easily and as far as voting reforms go, the biggest one is getting the kids and minorities to show up.

Frankly? I think the whole country should just go absentee. Keep your receipt. Any questions? Revote.

cgod  ·  3893 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oregon is vote by mail. You can go to a polling place and cast a vote if there was a reconcilable problem with your ballot but other wise all by mail. I don't know of any problems with the system and it helps push turn out up a bit. So Fuck Yea! Lets have Vote by mail!