[grogenaut]

Sure but what your are really saying is it'd be awesome if the election results were cryptographically and anonymously verifiable by the voters. Of which the block chain is merely one solution.

How do you get valid voting credentials to nontechnical voters such that they can anonymously vote and verify?

[heliumcraft]

Indeed. I'm not claiming the blockchain is the only solution, but currently it's a pretty good one. I would hope for a centralized solution actually if that would help adoption and prevent voting fraud.

> How do you get valid voting credentials to nontechnical voters such that they can anonymously vote and verify?

That has to do with identity systems (see uPort, onename) and is an interesting & open problem.