I fail to see how this is a bad thing? Are y'all seriously such cultists that you're against using blockchain to further protect the electoral system? Good grief...
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First “technology” listed as part of the solution is X… this isn’t a solution. It’s cronyism.
I fail to see how making elections impossible to rig via some sort of blockchain implementation is "cronyism".
It isn’t - a government entity handing the opportunity run a public to centralized/corporate entities without some sort of evaluation process is cronyism.
I’m all for cryptographically verifiable and immutable elections. I see no good technical reason for the companies pre-selected by the new administration. Conflicts of interest are all over the place.
Alright, well, I see some fair argument to be had there, but whether it's a company or a government agency, you're going to have conflicts of interest. In fact, before we federalized everything, things were done through companies mostly. The important part when implementing a technology like this is to make sure that it's an open and verifiable standard. I mean, that's why the whole free and open source movement exists in the first place, so you don't have to trust any entities if you don't want to.
I think we run the risk of over complicating things. An ID should be adequate. I don't know of many legal residents who don't have an ID. Shit I know illegals with IDs.
That's fair but look at what happened in 2020 with the mailing ballots. Can't exactly use an ID to verify those when they're carted in to be counted.