[brazzy]

Of all the things you could do with a blockchain, it's probably the worst.

The legitimacy of voting outcomes depends critically on everyone understanding and in principle being able to verify how it works, and it being resistant to tampering at scale.

Very few people would understand a blockchain based voting mechanism well enough to really verify, and any implementation error could give an attacker complete and untraceable control over the results.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2030/

[mitchdoogle]

You telling me everyone understands computerized voting machines? Because I don't think there's that much of a gap between people who know about those vs people who know about block chains

[brazzy]

No, those are a bad idea as well.