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by dozzie 3483 days ago
> This precisely fails to answer the question. Voting is commonly put forward as a use case for blockchains [...]

Commonly and incorrectly. It's like asking how to weld steel using milk and pasta -- the very question is ill-formed. Voting has very different problems than what distributed timestamping (a.k.a. blockchain) solves.

> A helpful answer would be something more than "lol read up n00b"

And I didn't specify the field the OP should read about? And on what problems? I think I did. It really takes one trivial query in Google to get a grasp, and I provided the necessary keywords.