There is also the human component. In 2017, CNN aired a segment revealing teams of people being trained to manipulate the voting machines. We had been warned in advance. We also learned that the 2020 election featured such machines connected to the internet, allowing for easy external manipulation.
Fortunately I've already written an article that addresses this subject, at least in passing. In the article, my main problem with blockchain currencies is non-technical (i.e. it's the question of whether faith in the exchange rate can be maintained), but in the middle of the article I mention the one technical problem that could befall any blockchain currency, and this problem applies equally to ANYTHING implemented with blockchain. It comes down to auditing. Blockchain auditing is conceptually similar to redundant-systems auditing; all of them depend upon redundant systems independently computing the same problem, and then going with the majority vote at the end. The question is: which technology is least likely to be compromised in the real world? https://daveziffer.substack.com/p/the-crypto-currency-fallacy
There is also the human component. In 2017, CNN aired a segment revealing teams of people being trained to manipulate the voting machines. We had been warned in advance. We also learned that the 2020 election featured such machines connected to the internet, allowing for easy external manipulation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA2DWMHgLnc
Right. Certainly there are plenty of avenues for human-assisted fraud. But even without that, you still can never trust a voting machine.
Fortunately I've already written an article that addresses this subject, at least in passing. In the article, my main problem with blockchain currencies is non-technical (i.e. it's the question of whether faith in the exchange rate can be maintained), but in the middle of the article I mention the one technical problem that could befall any blockchain currency, and this problem applies equally to ANYTHING implemented with blockchain. It comes down to auditing. Blockchain auditing is conceptually similar to redundant-systems auditing; all of them depend upon redundant systems independently computing the same problem, and then going with the majority vote at the end. The question is: which technology is least likely to be compromised in the real world? https://daveziffer.substack.com/p/the-crypto-currency-fallacy