[discostu]

Early voting will still be necessary. And the system is still completely open to gaming and hacking.

Look it’s very simple, there’s two ways to go about it:
either you aren’t verifying the users, in which case the system is just begging for vote fraud
Or you are verifying, in which case the vote fraud will all happen there

All this blockchain BS is just a voting version of Segway, throwing too much technology at a problem to not actually solve any of it.

[palmer]

It's actually quite simple. Far less complex than a voting machine. If one is hacked (has been shown numerous times) hundreds of votes can be changed. Worse than that, if the machine design is compromised then all the votes are at stake. None of the internals are public.

In contrast all of the internals of the block chain software and the block chain itself is completely public. It can easily be audit and vote fraud can be investigated. We can agree that tech is never a silver bullet but some tech is clearly superior than other tech.