nostr:npub16edn737n8u3xz2sjywwz9xks2xgguvhg86fwuacv2ns92y7ln8csqk9xwc Mathematicians for about a century: "So we developed this system that naturally provides more democratic results than our current system. Politicians should use it."

Politicians: "Cool. Let's use the old system to determine whether or not we're doing that. Oh hey, look, the people who win in the old system want to keep the old system. I guess we're keeping the old system."

No technology will change this dynamic, and the mathematicians who study the theory of democratic systems are very well aware that their work is theoretical and not political. Only a very small number of organizations (see the Pirate Party) use these types of advancements, they will not be implemented on a national scale in this century.

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Now try with Bitcoin existing everywhere around the world. Before 2009, it didn’t.

The government will have no choice. The people will begin to 100% verify elections in real time because decentralization wins in the end. States and districts will begin using this verification process to identify irregularities. It has never before been possible in a non-centralized way.

Eventually people will lose interest in voting all together.