I've seen a voting system built on bitcoin - forgot the name, though. It looked perfect. I think they said they're trying to get Guatemala to use it.
Doing direct voting obsoletes the nation state. There's no good reason for the vote of someone outside of your community to have any bearing on your community. Small communities will have to become fully sovereign - and I'm all for that. No more empires, no more capital cities.
This would be great when all small minigovernments of small groups would start existing. Small communes that selfgovern and interact with other communities freely. But up to now I do not have a concept how they could free themselves from the current nation state, since every piece of land in this earth belongs currently to a nation state.
Easier now than before bitcoin. The nation state has proved over and over that it is incapable of controlling its debt. The reason it can't control its debt is because elected assemblies are inherently corrupt. Legislatures attract the most corrupt people. What are they going to do when the population isnt using their fiat, so they can't use debt to steal from the people? They'll turn on each other. Some will abscond with their ill gotten gains in the form of bitcoin, like African dictators with Swiss bank accounts. That's the moment that any prepared community can renegotiate the terms of their union. That moment will come over and over until all power has been renegotiated back to the local level.
