Re: Blockchain technology in election polls

Quote from: Baofeng on November 28, 2018, 06:29:59 PM

Actually it's been implemented as far as I know:

[1]Switzerland's Crypto Valley Successfully Completes Blockchain Voting Trial

[2]Japanese City Trials Blockchain Voting for Social Development Programs

[3]Sierra Leone Uses Blockchain To Track Election Results

[4]US: West Virginia Completes First Blockchain-Supported State Elections

For sure those progressive countries are already looking at this options. Not to save money but to make it more transparent to its electorate. On the other hand, there are those who opposes it, saying that we're getting totally dependent on the Internet. It's still a long way to go, but I guess its inevitable and we might see governments around the world slowly injecting it on their electoral process.

And with the way things are going gradually with some of these countries that you have mentioned, I believe there is so much more to come in the long run. We all know that the list of potentials for the blockchain technology cuts across so many sectors, which with the look of things will be almost all facets of life and when it comes to the political space, when it comes to transparency and accountability, following, counting and correlation of votes, we all know this is something that blockchain will easily solve.

It is a gradual process, and we are already beginning to see real life cases, even though the blockchain technology is still in its early stage, but I believe this is something that would really be utilized a lot in the poll space and what we are basically just seeing now is just a tip of the iceberg.