When elections are over, some doubt its integrity. Blockchain might just be the thing to end that once and for all.
Tim Goggin, CEO at Horizon State, for one, believes that blockchain-enabled elections represent a “significant improvement” over the way most elections are operated today. Voting machines break down, software fails and election irregularities often create uncertainty and doubt among the voting public.
Marta Piekarska, senior DAO strategist at ConsenSys, recalls working at Hyperledger in 2016, where blockchain voting was discussed as a promising use case. “Six years later, and we are still talking about this,” she told Cointelegraph. “We are still quite far from a situation where any kind of distributed ledger would be considered” — at least in a national election.
A public decentralized blockchain ensures immutability by default, after all, “in that any transaction written can never be deleted.” The system is secured by cryptography and “transactions are anonymous, but are open for inspection by anyone in the world,” said Kjelstrøm, adding: That said, Goggin noted that many governments will probably opt to use private blockchains in line with their own privacy/data laws, and there are many ways to set up permissioned blockchains. But, if they don’t at least offer the public an auditable trace of voting records, then they aren’t likely to boost the public’s belief in election integrity. He calls himself “a big fan” of public and distributed blockchains.
Dhillon, for her part, proposes a compromise where “some parts of the process are centralized,” i.e., voters come to a booth where their identity is checked and they submit their vote, “but subsequent parts of the chain can be decentralized to make them more secure and tamper proof.”In 2014, the city of Moscow’s Active Citizen e-voting platform was created to let Muscovites have a say in non-political municipal decisions, and in 2017 it used the Ethereum blockchain for a series of polls.
Buterin, too, said in 2021 that security was still an issue vis-a-vis elections. For that reason, “in the short term, any form of blockchain voting should certainly remain confined to small experiments. […] Security is at present definitely not good enough to rely on computers for everything.”
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