Blockchain supports immutable protection of data. That immutable protection is an essential aspect of engendereing confidence in the election system and promoting trust in the outcome. Blockchain supports election core features: processes, safeguards, enforcements. Valid civic elections can be enhanced via use of blockchain technology. A blockchain voting system depends on an app or smart contract to execute rules and accomplish voting work. The blockchain supports registration, ballot marking, tallying, and counting.
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Blockchain verification of smartphone ballots is coming to all elections systems as next generation technology. Ballot scanning technologies in use can be linked to the blockchain providing seamless protection of ballots, protections that last through a recount and cotested election.
Blockchain supports the civic structures required to ensure that each step in an election takes place without fraud, preventing fraud in many cases. The scale of operations in a national election can be quite large, emanating from the local school or fire station poll sites and achieving consolidation of results at the state level. Blockchain is able to protect the ballots and ensure a reliable count of all the votes.
In addition to blockchain storage and protection of ballots, blockchain voting systems need an app that can be run on a smartphone or online. The app implements multiple independent interacting state machines. A state machine is a set of code that manages an event where the event may have more than one outcome depending on varying extant conditions in the event. Think fo a state as event triggered by a humna being. Multiple independent interacting state machines manage a whole lot of events at the same time where each event can have more than one outcome. The multiple independent interacting state machines handle changing and different results at the same time in each state, before moving to the next step in the processing.
An election is a collection of constraints, known as states, (different from the state that is a political entitiy, i.e. part of a large country where the state has its own government). The election technology behind the blockchain is a very complex state macnine, because an election is comprised of a large collection of linked events. A state is a condition of the voting process, an event, that is separate from other events in the process, it is an entitty defined by an ongoing set of events. A state, in an election, is a description of the status of a system that is waiting to execute a transition. A vote is a transition, a set of actions to be done when a condition is fulfilled or when an event, vote, is received by the system.
Voting by blockchain provides a singular record of all the events for the election and is able to provide a verifable stream of ballot records that can be checked during the review of the election. Blockchain supports trust in an election.
Problem-solving, decision-making capabilities need systems that cascade at scale, systems that can handle a lot of different events simultaneoulsy - opening the polls, checking off valid voters, accepting a ballot mark, interlocking against over-voting, and accepting a write-in instead of a mark on the ballot. Election systems without a lot of interlocks and sequenced locking systems lose their attachment to the accuracy of base data and tend to become unreliable. A good voting system is simply a large state machine attached to a blockchain.
AI is not a good solution as AI reasoning is dependent on extensive data sets. For an election, the data set is the input of each voter. This is not AI. In addition, at scale, AI has increasing difficulty in addressing problem solutions correctly.
Elections systems based on state machine code scale well. At scale, multiple independent interacting state machines can solve very difficult problems, while maintaining completely accurate renditions of the events and vote selections of each voter in play.
Multiple independent interacting state machines handle changing and different results at the same time in each state, before moving to the next step in the processing. Voting is a very complex problem to handle because there are so many simultaneous events that cascade all at once. Blockchain brings a significant improvement ot voting systems.
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