Will blockchain revolutionize the way we vote?
9 Dec 2018 7:41 PM GMT
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- While cryptocurrency was created to engender specifically economic freedom for individuals, but a number of developers are looking to blockchain as a potential technology for securing political liberty as well, and for increasing voting convenience and security while potentially improving on democratic structures themselves.
- Recently , South Korea has begun trialing blockchain voting, the latest in a number of jurisdictions who are looking for blockchain as a potential way to introduce a 21st century voting process securely and transparently.
- The most revolutionary suggestions for blockchain-based democracy has perhaps been ‘ Liquid Democracy ,' which is not only an implementation of blockchain based voting, but a completely new voting system which combines the benefits of direct democracy with the convenience of representative.
- The liquid democracy project, which is also called delegative democracy, sees blockchain as a way to get around this.
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