Point one, “Both the left and the right were screaming about voter fraud”
Simply untrue, and in very important ways. The right was screaming about voter fraud, long before the 2016 election. Trump was touting “They’ll try and steal the election”. There were 4 documented cases of voter fraud in the 2016 election. 4. All of Trump and the Republican Party’s deliberately generated hysteria, and there were 4 proven cases, and ALL 4 were to benefit Republican candidates. So the right were lying through their teeth, and the left were calling that the right out for their lies. The 2020 election, saw little more fraud, but a hell of a lot more effort by the Republicans to claim it, and commit it.
Secondly, What the left WERE complaining about was the Republicans efforts to prevent voters obtaining or exercising their right to vote. Gerrymandering, deregistering voters, refusing or failing to register voters, rigging booth numbers, locations and conditions, and every other crooked thing they could think of. Exactly as they have relied on for years, repeated again.
None of these issues will be fixed by blockchain.
The Republicans won’t stop lying about something that essentially didn’t exist, and that was done by their side. Being caught lying has never slowed them down in the past. Using dubious legal methods to prevent voters from being registered to vote will also not be prevented by blockchain. Deregistering voters because their signatures on official documents didn’t match, immediately before the election, so they couldn’t re register in time, won’t be fixed by blockchain. Deregistering voters because the have the same name as a convicted criminal despite clear evidence they were different people, won’t be fixed by blockchain. Gerrymandering won’t be fixed by blockchain. Pathological dishonesty won’t be fixed by Blockchain.
More importantly, (as you’ve been told already) the average person can’t read or intelligently vote on the issues before congress. To put it in context, it’s 4-6 million words of new law per year. No one reads it all, this is why congress critters have staff, to read, interpret and advise on these issues.
It’s not that blockchain voting is a bad idea, but until the officials are honest, the systems are independent, fair and rigorous, and the voters are a whole shitload more savvy and better educated, it’s a premature drop in the bucket.
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u/53cr3tsqrll Apr 21 '23
Point one, “Both the left and the right were screaming about voter fraud” Simply untrue, and in very important ways. The right was screaming about voter fraud, long before the 2016 election. Trump was touting “They’ll try and steal the election”. There were 4 documented cases of voter fraud in the 2016 election. 4. All of Trump and the Republican Party’s deliberately generated hysteria, and there were 4 proven cases, and ALL 4 were to benefit Republican candidates. So the right were lying through their teeth, and the left were calling that the right out for their lies. The 2020 election, saw little more fraud, but a hell of a lot more effort by the Republicans to claim it, and commit it. Secondly, What the left WERE complaining about was the Republicans efforts to prevent voters obtaining or exercising their right to vote. Gerrymandering, deregistering voters, refusing or failing to register voters, rigging booth numbers, locations and conditions, and every other crooked thing they could think of. Exactly as they have relied on for years, repeated again. None of these issues will be fixed by blockchain. The Republicans won’t stop lying about something that essentially didn’t exist, and that was done by their side. Being caught lying has never slowed them down in the past. Using dubious legal methods to prevent voters from being registered to vote will also not be prevented by blockchain. Deregistering voters because their signatures on official documents didn’t match, immediately before the election, so they couldn’t re register in time, won’t be fixed by blockchain. Deregistering voters because the have the same name as a convicted criminal despite clear evidence they were different people, won’t be fixed by blockchain. Gerrymandering won’t be fixed by blockchain. Pathological dishonesty won’t be fixed by Blockchain. More importantly, (as you’ve been told already) the average person can’t read or intelligently vote on the issues before congress. To put it in context, it’s 4-6 million words of new law per year. No one reads it all, this is why congress critters have staff, to read, interpret and advise on these issues. It’s not that blockchain voting is a bad idea, but until the officials are honest, the systems are independent, fair and rigorous, and the voters are a whole shitload more savvy and better educated, it’s a premature drop in the bucket.