Blockchains seem like the perfect technology for online voting. They can act as “bulletin boards,” global ledgers that were hypothesized (but never truly realized) in decades of e-voting research. Better still, blockchains enable smart contracts, which can execute on-chain elections autonomously and do away with election authorities.
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