[matt_wulfeck]

At 3.2 maximum transactions per second it would take approximately 500 days of non-stop voting to get through all 146m registered voters in the USA (and during that time the BTC market would be doing nothing but voting). So to answer the question a BTC-based voting system where a transaction is used to cast a vote won't work.

For this to work you'd need a different network with different speeds and abilities, but then you lose the benefits of the distributed BTC network.

We can't even get all states to do an ID check before voting because of disenfranchisement concerns. I don't think a block chain idea is going to get very far.

[ccarter84]

Could probably run a side-chain and have secretaries of state host it on their servers with federal oversight and auditing....but you're right about the voter-ID stuff (from a number of angles is a nightmare).