How Blockchain Will Make Electronic Voting More Secure

September 18, 2019

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The blockchain bears all kinds of potential for improving human systems. Most often we hear of that potential in reference to financial services and banking systems. But the human arena that could perhaps be most improved by the blockchain is voting.

Over the course of the previous election cycle, talk of fraud, fake news, and “system rigging” was rampant. And for good reason. Fake news was detrimental. Our existing mechanisms did prove susceptible to outside infection. It became clear to everyone that something needs to change.

And that’s where the blockchain comes in: by moving our voting systems to the blockchain — something several countries and states have experimented with already — we can ameliorate a system exposed as insufficient multiple times over.

Here’s how.

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