IT started as a pretty harmless post. A friend of mine posted something about the November elections being susceptible to fraud in many different ways. Potential Mail Fraud for absentee voters, no bid contracts handed out to voting machine manufacturers with little to no oversight on how their machines tabulate a winner. There are tons of possible conspiracy theories you can subscribe to in order to say that the 2020 election results are going to be questionable.
I slipped in to the comments with the simple statement.
With Blockchain, we can have an immutable ledger of who voted, who they voted for, where the vote originated, and tracking it right through the entire tabulation process. Blockchain, I asserted, could create a provably fair election.
In Fact, there are plenty of provably fair blockchain contests going on out there. Dragonchain (DRGN) for one has been handing out something like $50,000 worth of their token via a provably fair contest with Beaxy.
But, the folks over on Facebook aren't ready to hear this sort of argument. My comment was met with the typical sour reaction that I am sure many of you have heard if you have tried to do any sort of Crypto onboarding.
It's too hard to keep track of
It's only for criminals doing drug deals
This little conversation reminds me that we are still so early in the crypto game. We have to look back at the beginning of the internet and how long it took for people to embrace internet technology to see what the adoption curve of BlockChain will look like. People just resist change.
Of course, we were never going to get adoption at a level where we could use blockchain to vote in our elections this year. But one day in the future, maybe we can log in on our computer, prove our identity through a form of KYC (another topic my normie friends are not familiar with) and vote online from the comfort of our own homes. We could get results in real time as soon as the polls closed, because the ledger would be right there where everyone could see them.
This all seems like a no brainer to me, and I know I am not alone in that opinion. But the world at large just isn't ready to trust the big bad Crypto just yet. How many years do you think we have before that can happen?