He touches on the main points, but the all encompassing problem is that politicians have a list of what essentially amounts to zero day hacks for elections, and only when they need a win do they see the light of day. Politicians know what cause election problems and then stack the deck so all those problems are applied only to their opponents. We see this most recently with Larry Elder's name being on the folded crease of the ballot, which is known to cause problems of not being counted.
Things such as that can be stacked in numerous ways to create such an amount of friction in voting for a person that you can discourage an incredible number of votes going to them just by frustrating people.
Voting needs blockchain technology to ensure every vote was cast by a legal citizen, but it relies on politicians giving up the great power they enjoy by being able to manipulate elections.
He touches on the main points, but the all encompassing problem is that politicians have a list of what essentially amounts to zero day hacks for elections, and only when they need a win do they see the light of day. Politicians know what cause election problems and then stack the deck so all those problems are applied only to their opponents. We see this most recently with Larry Elder's name being on the folded crease of the ballot, which is known to cause problems of not being counted.
Things such as that can be stacked in numerous ways to create such an amount of friction in voting for a person that you can discourage an incredible number of votes going to them just by frustrating people.
Voting needs blockchain technology to ensure every vote was cast by a legal citizen, but it relies on politicians giving up the great power they enjoy by being able to manipulate elections.