It's not too late to rescue the US 2022 Mid Terms? Really? Not. Maybe 2024.
Rescued with Blockchain and distributed Public Ledgers?
Let's face it many primary vote returns are already compromised, witness the recount situation in Washington State 2022 Mid Term Primary- so close a recount required, where heading into the mid terms, 5000 votes are still coming in from mail-in ballots, which are likely, given past history in this state to have been tampered with.
Beutler the leader versus Kent the challenger, per the link above, is a classic situation of two candidates vying for the last seat in the next Mid Terms in October 2022 where they are only separated by 257 votes, which under WA state law requires a legal formal recount be completed. What a waste of tax payer money, not to mention the amount of corruption which can seep in to swing the result to one or the other candidate, while we wait.
Let's face it, Washington State like most others in the USA (and for that matter worldwide) need voting system reform. Interestingly Kent the trailer, himself has that reform listed as part of his platform in the form of a US 2020 recall the vote position, should he be elected, something the incumbent Beutler shows no interest in.
This could all be fixed per my November post election result 2020 post here, only if someone like Kent actually follows through with his platform promises and adds voter system reform to his platform in Mid-Terms 2022, should he make the cut.
Crime of the Century? Voting Systems Everywhere..
Ask yourself the question: Did anybody from the #cryptosphere step up in a big way to solve this huge problem evident in the voter fraud unveiled in the last 2020 US election?
Nope, all you can hear are are the crickets on this issue of voter reform. Losts of screaming about voter IDs, but not much noise about fixing the root cause beyond IDs.
What a whacked Catch-22 world we live in, Imprisoned in our own shitty voting systems.
The solution to the current voting system delay problems imo, is staring us all right in the face, but, it's up to the "powers that be" to make the changes, at their own whim.
The Voting System Reboot Recipe?:
1. Zero Knowledge Proofs to preserve voter privacy
2. Voter IDs
3. Distributed Public Ledgers
4. PoW One time use unique Utility tokens per blockchained voter registration list
5. Multiple Different Voting BlockChains & Distributed Public Ledger under Smart Contract Multi-sig govt servant control, per County. (EVM and ERC SCs are ready! Which flavour of PoW Blockchain? Take your pick and figure out how to pay the miners securing the system too!)
6. Rounds of Voting to get to a majority winner.
7. Electorate Voting Wallets for govt issued voting tokens, different one time use per round "Bingo Card Voting"
8. Watermarked and Serialized Paper Ballots for those without Smartphones.
9. Restricted Mail-ins for Shut-ins and Foreign Service Personnel
10. Auto Roll-up to Layer 1 State wide Blockchain, via Transfer from Voting District/Precinct/County/Kanton Multi-sig Wallet
There are probably other salient features we #Cryptonauts need to add to make crypto eVoting great for the first time in the govt. sector, so please let me know in the comments below.
Imo it's well time for all of us to make more noise and demand elected and no-elected public servants fix the glaring problem with our voting systems that exist everywhere, fixing as above with the #VotingSystemRebootRecipe above, in order to get a clear, honest majority on all voting matters implemented as honest evoting tokenized systems "For the People".
We can do it Cryptosphere!
Tk over and out
