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I don't think that decentralized voting is a good thing at all. Voting will lose its significance when a vote can be issued with barely more than just a click.

I don't think that decentralized voting is a good thing at all. Voting will lose its significance when a vote can be issued with barely more than just a click. Elections and votes will become increasingly meaningless and much more frequent. Social interaction suffers greatly today, because of the success of Social Media, which was praised as a new and easy way to socially interact without going outside. Blockchain might be the right choice of technology for the voting process, people still need to be obliged to go to the city hall to issue their vote, in person!

juliendorra 9y ago
The Swiss have very frequent votes, with direct votes on several issues 3 or 4 times a year. That’s in addition to electing representatives. Of course they are the oldest continuous modern democracy. You could argue from the Swiss example that more voting occasions wouldn’t change the main issues of modern democracies, but it doesn’t seems to lower the importance of voting either, with a similar turn out that elsewhere. (Also, a technical solution to constant voting and flexible, transferable delegation of voting power is the main goal of the fluid democracy movement.)
- bjelkeman-again 9y ago
  The Swiss have a relatively low turnout for their voting. 47% http://www.electionguide.org/countries/id/207/ http://www.electionguide.org/countries/id/207/ It seems people only vote on what they care about. Which I think can be expected if there are many votes. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/yes-no-or-sometimes-_most-swiss-do-actually-vote/41963568 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/yes-no-or-sometimes-_most-swiss...
deviationblue 9y ago
> people still need to be obliged to go to the city hall to issue their vote, in person! And you can also then police the undesirables by putting them through onerous identification processes. /sarcasm
icelancer 9y ago
>> Voting will lose its significance Don't worry; in the United States, it largely already has. Blockchain tech can't make it much worse. >> people still need to be obliged to go to the city hall to issue their vote, in person! Yeah, that's not ableist at all. Don't worry about those with limited transportation options. And piling tons of people into city hall will totally make people social again.... ???

juliendorra 9y ago

The Swiss have very frequent votes, with direct votes on several issues 3 or 4 times a year. That’s in addition to electing representatives. Of course they are the oldest continuous modern democracy. You could argue from the Swiss example that more voting occasions wouldn’t change the main issues of modern democracies, but it doesn’t seems to lower the importance of voting either, with a similar turn out that elsewhere. (Also, a technical solution to constant voting and flexible, transferable delegation of voting power is the main goal of the fluid democracy movement.)

bjelkeman-again 9y ago
The Swiss have a relatively low turnout for their voting. 47% http://www.electionguide.org/countries/id/207/ http://www.electionguide.org/countries/id/207/ It seems people only vote on what they care about. Which I think can be expected if there are many votes. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/yes-no-or-sometimes-_most-swiss-do-actually-vote/41963568 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/yes-no-or-sometimes-_most-swiss...

deviationblue 9y ago

> people still need to be obliged to go to the city hall to issue their vote, in person! And you can also then police the undesirables by putting them through onerous identification processes. /sarcasm

icelancer 9y ago

>> Voting will lose its significance Don't worry; in the United States, it largely already has. Blockchain tech can't make it much worse. >> people still need to be obliged to go to the city hall to issue their vote, in person! Yeah, that's not ableist at all. Don't worry about those with limited transportation options. And piling tons of people into city hall will totally make people social again.... ???