Yes, it’s true that the ‘system’ (meaning electronic voting machines) can be hacked. Now you’re catching on.
But you’re wrong when you say there won’t be a blockchain at some point. That statement you made reveals you do not know how the blockchains work.
Each node in the blockchain receives data from a machine or a hand tally continuously in realtime so they can be cross-checked. The hand count can tally say 10 votes and be entered on a public data node whereas the electronic machine total of the same votes can also be transmitted to another node. If they don’t agree, the counting stops and an investigation is made. And this can be done continuously or at any random time. Thus, a hacked machine can never know how to be in sync with the hand check.
Then extending to uploaded totals to district-wide or county-wide, the conforming totals are stored on many nodes that must all agree or the uploads are stopped and an investigation is made.
Block-Chain Tech catches inconsistencies immediately and stops the process dead in its tracks.
Here’s another explanation of how it works:
https://followmyvote.com/online-voting-technology/blockchain-technology/
I didn’t say there’s wouldn’t be a blockchain at some point. I said there wouldn’t be a blockchain in the POINT THAT MATTERS.
Your own model shows the problems. If there’s a hand count that can be faked, block chain doesn’t matter. Basically at that point you’re putting a whole bunch of technology to “secure” data that’s faked the same way it’s been getting faked for hundreds of years.
The main problem I’ve seen raised with block chain voting is that a voter would be able to prove that he voted a particular way, which would allow for vote selling and vote coercion. I would love to be able to verify that my vote was recorded properly, but can’t figure out how without tripping on this issue.