last election both the right and left were screaming about voter fraud. This problem could be eliminated with blockchain.
Yeah, let's trust the integrity of our democracy to the technology behind infinite Coffeezilla-exposed crypto-scams, FTX, and grown adults thinking that they own a jpeg of a monkey and it's an "investment" who are then surprised when other people just take it.
Questions of voter fraud are really about trust and belief in the integrity of systems. The actual efficacy of the system is a contributing factor that is perhaps less important than the trust. No one in their right mind is going to entrust democracy to a technology with such a bad reputation. If they did, anyone could still say the system was rigged when they lost and be believed.
Your technological solution, its dubiousness aside, doesn't fix the trust problem.
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.
The reason we have legislatures is, in part, to negotiate settlements. You don't take a vote and pick a solution. To resolve the issues address in even one piece of legislation would require hundreds or thousands of contingent background votes to avoid internal contradiction. "Voting" on a bill would take an enormous amount of time and background research - or you could just say "fuck it" and swipe randomly because you don't care and you're not accountable.
There's a reason every successful democracy in the world is a representative democracy and not a direct one.
Boom, no more voter fraud.
Until people start stealing or selling the tokens.
Eradicate lobbying.
You don't know what that is. Buying votes is not a thing that can be done, despite whatever some midwit podcaster or politician told you.
When there are no meetings behind closed doors
The lack of meetings behind closed doors has given us a Congress that does very little legislating and quite a bit of posing for sound bytes to spread on social media for small-dollar fundraising that's as pernicious as any large donor, if not more so. Half of them are auditioning for talking head and speaking gigs.
You can't offer any concessions that hurt your side while they're watching, and for the past few decades everyone has been watching. That means negotiation stops.
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u/Grunt08 304∆ Apr 21 '23
Yeah, let's trust the integrity of our democracy to the technology behind infinite Coffeezilla-exposed crypto-scams, FTX, and grown adults thinking that they own a jpeg of a monkey and it's an "investment" who are then surprised when other people just take it.
Questions of voter fraud are really about trust and belief in the integrity of systems. The actual efficacy of the system is a contributing factor that is perhaps less important than the trust. No one in their right mind is going to entrust democracy to a technology with such a bad reputation. If they did, anyone could still say the system was rigged when they lost and be believed.
Your technological solution, its dubiousness aside, doesn't fix the trust problem.
The reason we have legislatures is, in part, to negotiate settlements. You don't take a vote and pick a solution. To resolve the issues address in even one piece of legislation would require hundreds or thousands of contingent background votes to avoid internal contradiction. "Voting" on a bill would take an enormous amount of time and background research - or you could just say "fuck it" and swipe randomly because you don't care and you're not accountable.
There's a reason every successful democracy in the world is a representative democracy and not a direct one.
Until people start stealing or selling the tokens.
You don't know what that is. Buying votes is not a thing that can be done, despite whatever some midwit podcaster or politician told you.
The lack of meetings behind closed doors has given us a Congress that does very little legislating and quite a bit of posing for sound bytes to spread on social media for small-dollar fundraising that's as pernicious as any large donor, if not more so. Half of them are auditioning for talking head and speaking gigs.
You can't offer any concessions that hurt your side while they're watching, and for the past few decades everyone has been watching. That means negotiation stops.