blockchain technology that would secure mail-in votes.as to how blockchain technology would secure voting, including the one above. The USPS says in the patent, “Voters generally wish to be able to vote for elected officials or on other issues in a manner that is convenient and secure. Further, those holding elections wish to be able to ensure that election results have not been tampered with and that the results actually correspond to the votes that were cast.
Paul Madsen, Technical Lead at Hedera Hashgraph, a distributed ledger technology invented by Dr. Leemon Baird, commented on the application by the USPS by noting, “Blockchains, or more generally Distributed Ledger Technologies , fundamental value is that they can provide to a community with potentially adversarial members a trusted and shared view of data without relying on some single provider to control that data.
Madsen explained these functions could be useful for recording votes in the election, explaining, “Both functions could be useful for recording the votes in an election - as proposed by this USPS patent. The votes of individual voters would be recorded, either on the blockchain or effectively timestamped and then recorded elsewhere - and so both help to mitigate the risk of double voting, or vote manipulation as well as give the voter confidence through transparency of the process.
This honestly gives me a lot of relief. I hope the postal service is doing everything in its power to ensure a safe and fair election.
I'll be voting in person come November!!!!
louisabai
Its NOT only a realDonaldTrump concern. Most people want to know that voting is legitimate. Both political Party's should be in agreement regarding the best course forward. If the U.S. Post Office has a secure system, lets see it.
What could possible go wrong? Post office isn't what it once was!!! Hence losing money!!