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A Blockchain-based Voting System Could be More Useful than Cryptocurrency
The 2020 U.S. presidential election was mired in scandal before it even began. As early as April, Donald Trump was suggesting that mail-in voting would be rife with fraud. By June, he was claiming that mail-in voting would be used to rig the election. In July, Fox News’ Chris Wallace asked Trump if he would accept the results of the election, to which Trump said he would “have to see.”
“I’m not going to just say yes,” he replied. “I’m not going to say no.”
By the time the election arrived, we were on the verge of a full-on constitutional crisis. Trump was saying, quite literally, that if he lost the election it would be because it was rigged, and if he won it would because the election was fair. The left worried this catch-22 would lead to Trump staging a coup — with immense military and police support to back him — while the right meanwhile shared Trump’s apparent concerns about fraud, protesting expanded mail-in voting laws and denouncing state politicians as election riggers and democrat collaborators.
When the dust settled, it didn’t really settle. Joe Biden won the election, but Trump’s supporters…
