This is like saying you can never rob a bank because the door of the safe is two feet thick and the lock is unpickable. But people can still rob banks!

Let's assume that blockchain is perfect and there is no way to add or misrepresent the data in there. That is a tall order, but let's move on. How do you count those records? Let's go down the Stalin route: "It is not the people who vote that count but the people who count the votes."

New sample program:

For Each Blockchain_Record

 If Candidate Biden or Trump then Add 1 to Temp

 Else Add 1 to Candidate_Name

End

Biden = 0.52 * Temp

Trump = Temp - Biden

Print Results

Biden wins by four percentage points and the blockchain was perfect regardless of votes.

The details of that program could be hidden anywhere. It could even delete itself after use. What do all those 350+ Services all do on your Windows PC? What do all the dlls do? How many hidden segments does the disk have? Does inserting a USB stick do more than you might guess?

This link shows the lengths that some will go to and imagine if there was money in it.

Then there are yet more options, suppose, as now, people take local vote tallies to central offices on a portable storage device of some sort. The aggregating of those results could also have corruption built in.

The problem with a computer is that so much is hidden. The Chinese even built hardware bugs into SuperMicro motherboards, for instance.

This is like saying you can never rob a bank because the door of the safe is two feet thick and the lock is unpickable. But people can still rob banks!

Let's assume that blockchain is perfect and there is no way to add or misrepresent the data in there. That is a tall order, but let's move on. How do you count those records? Let's go down the Stalin route: "It is not the people who vote that count but the people who count the votes."

New sample program:

For Each Blockchain_Record

If Candidate Biden or Trump then Add 1 to Temp

Else Add 1 to Candidate_Name

End

Biden = 0.52 * Temp

Trump = Temp - Biden

Print Results

Biden wins by four percentage points and the blockchain was perfect regardless of votes.

The details of that program could be hidden anywhere. It could even delete itself after use. What do all those 350+ Services all do on your Windows PC? What do all the dlls do? How many hidden segments does the disk have? Does inserting a USB stick do more than you might guess?

This link shows the lengths that some will go to and imagine if there was money in it.

Then there are yet more options, suppose, as now, people take local vote tallies to central offices on a portable storage device of some sort. The aggregating of those results could also have corruption built in.

The problem with a computer is that so much is hidden. The Chinese even built hardware bugs into SuperMicro motherboards, for instance.