Blockchain voting is the alternative for trusted democratic elections

Currently, many have proposed "Mobile" voting as an alternative more compatible with current times, allowing people to vote without leaving their homes.

How does one make mobile, or remote, voting possible without compromising the security of electoral participation? The addition of blockchain solutions to the mobile voting process can give confidence to the electoral system and bring peace to the electoral process.

The combination of sequential hashing and cryptography in a distributed structure allows for the protection of voters' identity and the verification of absolutely all votes entered in the blockchain platform, which can enable secure and transparent voting mechanisms with electoral vote monitoring.

Electoral jurisdictions in several U.S. states have tested mobile-application-based blockchain voting for state, federal and municipal elections - primarily to enable remote voting by military and civilian residents abroad via smartphones and tablets, rather than the traditional and mail, fax and paper methods.

West Virginia, for example, enabled mobile voting via blockchain for its state and federal elections back in 2018.

As a result of the good performance mentioned in the previous paragraphs, there are already notable figures in American politics raising the banner of blockchain mobile voting, such as Bradley Tusk - an American businessman, philanthropist, political strategist and founder of Tusk Philanthropies; Mike Queen - deputy chief of staff to the West Virginia Secretary of State; and Jocelyn Bucaro - director of elections in Denver.

Because we are living in the age of polarization, there are also people strongly against mobile voting, including voting via blockchain.

The report points to blockchain and internet voting as a target for online attacks by foreign intelligence, saying the transmission of ballots over the internet - including by email, fax and blockchain systems - makes them vulnerable.

The main security risk in voting via blockchain is in the interface with the electoral jurisdiction, where the ballot is also printed with a hash or encrypted key on top.

In addition to cybersecurity issues, another point in a blockchain vote that has been questioned is: How would the voting book be processed and the ballots verified in a blockchain solution?