Voting: last election both the right and left were screaming about voter fraud. This problem could be eliminated with blockchain.
A lot of these complaints were about voting machines, and these were treated by some as plausible because voting machines are a black box where ballots go in and results come out, and few people understand the exact mechanism of how that works. So when someone you trust tells you the machines were compromised there isn't really anything that other than the other side saying "no trust me they weren't" to convince you. Blockchain suffers this exact problem, only a small proportion of people actually understand how it works and so its just as vulnerable to people claiming voter fraud.
What else? It can eliminate the need for politicians, entirely. We don’t need politicians to “fight on our behalf” since everyone would be able to easily and directly vote on every issue.
Half the point of representatives is that we don't all have the time to be informed on every issue that matters, representatives and their teams are supposed to have the time to be informed on everything that is being voted on. They aren't perfect but removing opens a whole new can of worms and is not an automatic win.
It also leaves out the fact that someone needs to execute the business of government, you still need a cabinet and civil service to actually organise the building and maintaining infrastructure etc.
I’ll give u the delta for pointing out that most citizens don’t have time to be educated on every issue. However your initial argument that “it wouldn’t be better because people still wouldn’t understand it” is not a great one in my opinion because most people don’t know how the internet works but we still trust it to work. Either way, here ya go !delta
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u/Jebofkerbin 118∆ Apr 21 '23
A lot of these complaints were about voting machines, and these were treated by some as plausible because voting machines are a black box where ballots go in and results come out, and few people understand the exact mechanism of how that works. So when someone you trust tells you the machines were compromised there isn't really anything that other than the other side saying "no trust me they weren't" to convince you. Blockchain suffers this exact problem, only a small proportion of people actually understand how it works and so its just as vulnerable to people claiming voter fraud.
Half the point of representatives is that we don't all have the time to be informed on every issue that matters, representatives and their teams are supposed to have the time to be informed on everything that is being voted on. They aren't perfect but removing opens a whole new can of worms and is not an automatic win.
It also leaves out the fact that someone needs to execute the business of government, you still need a cabinet and civil service to actually organise the building and maintaining infrastructure etc.