I am not going to try to explain the blockchain technology to you. Nor do I know how they propose doing this.
My point is that the technology is there, it is safer than any other technology out there now. And, I am guessing it will be better than the crap systems they use now.
Of course, there are a lot of 60+ year old people here on FR who are terrified of technology, and who will never trust anything younger then themselves. Which is hilarious based on the “never trust anyone over 30” cries of their youth.
The technology isn’t there. Because it can’t be. As I said previously in the thread: the biggest security hole is ALWAYS legitimate use. There absolutely positively HAS TO BE some layer of control to make sure the system allows all proper US citizens to vote and ONLY proper US citizen to vote. And the minute you have that layer of control you have a system that can be gamed and or hacked. And we haven’t gotten into the counting system which in the end also has to have some level of centralization, and therefore vulnerability to gaming or hacking.
I’m 46 and a software QA engineer. I’m paid pretty well to do exactly this, look at the design of a system and point out its flaws. And any and all voting systems have variations of the same flaw. Much like how any OS that allows you to install software will allow you to install malware, any voting system that allows voting will allow fraudulent voting. It’s the unavoidable security hole. You might make the system BETTER (although in this case I don’t think you will, centralized data causes single failure points, so instead of having to hack a bunch of voting machines they only need to hack 1, or maybe 1 per congressional district) but any idea that you can make it truly secure and immune to fraud is panacea thinking and flawed.