I think there are a bunch of blockchain projects trying to work on identity and voting (like QuarkID, AnonAadhaar), but the key problem is how to bootstrap identity system first. The simplest solution is to make use of a public key issued and managed by the government, but if there is one, then the government can just set up e-voting the…
I think there are a bunch of blockchain projects trying to work on identity and voting (like QuarkID, AnonAadhaar), but the key problem is how to bootstrap identity system first. The simplest solution is to make use of a public key issued and managed by the government, but if there is one, then the government can just set up e-voting themselves, like in Estonia.
But yeah, it’s astonishing today that there still isn’t reliable polling, such that politicians can credibly claim that they don’t really know what their constituents actually want (perhaps many prefer it that way). But I think this is changing: There's a project called pol.is which is pretty interesting (https://pol.is/report/r2xcn2cdbmrzjmmuuytdk). I predict that by 2028 there should be at least one congressional candidate that will run on a platform of direct democracy via digital polling.
I think there are a bunch of blockchain projects trying to work on identity and voting (like QuarkID, AnonAadhaar), but the key problem is how to bootstrap identity system first. The simplest solution is to make use of a public key issued and managed by the government, but if there is one, then the government can just set up e-voting themselves, like in Estonia.
But yeah, it’s astonishing today that there still isn’t reliable polling, such that politicians can credibly claim that they don’t really know what their constituents actually want (perhaps many prefer it that way). But I think this is changing: There's a project called pol.is which is pretty interesting (https://pol.is/report/r2xcn2cdbmrzjmmuuytdk). I predict that by 2028 there should be at least one congressional candidate that will run on a platform of direct democracy via digital polling.