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Vitalik Buterin Makes His Position Clear: Blockchain Unsuitable For Government Voting

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Thu, 7/06/2018 - 9:40
Vitalik Buterin Makes His Position Clear: Blockchain Unsuitable For Government Voting
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News has spread over the Internet, based on Vitalik Buterin’s tweet, that he is being “cautiously supportive” of national elections conducted with the help of the distributed ledger technology (DLT).

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This was regarding the article about West Virginia, the US state that has first permitted Internet voting by Blockchain. Some online voting via DLT has also been performed in Estonia.

This news brought up a heated discussion regarding the flaws of the current voting system and pros and cons of using a distributed network for that. Some believe that voting via DLT can be compromised through potential 51 percent attack.

Vitalik’s position misunderstood

Yesterday, Buterin tweeted once again on this topic, refuting the news headlines and clarifying his stance on the subject– he believes that, even though there are some limited use cases of Blockchain for online voting, they must not include national government elections.

In his opinion, online voting needs to be conducted meeting specific requirements on privacy and security. Besides, Ethereum’s CEO believes that “just shoving stuff onto a public ledger” can be counterproductive.

Blockchain already used for elections

However, the distributed ledger technology has already been used for the government election in Sierra Leone in March 2018. The election was powered by the Blockchain startup Arora, which follows a mission of reforming elections of various scale via the DTL. With all due respect to the Ethereum’s co-founder, no dire consequences regarding that event were reported.

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