Hi @juanmolina,

Thank you for this interesting article. In Switzerland we are working for several years to develop a possibility to give our votes online. The proposed solution is based on cryptography and blockchain. However there is no concesus yet over this solution. There are some real security concerns. The blockchain maybe quite a safe technology in itself but the danger lies where the data is entered into the blockchain.

Democratical processes are ill these days

When I see your country but also many other countries through the world, I think that often so called democratical process are been taken as hostages by the governments in place. It seems that they have little difficulty in rigging the results of votations and elections. By the way they give themselves a certain legitimacy in the country and also abroad. If people claim that the elections where rigged, they answer that they simply cannot accept defeat.

The result is that people loose their trust in democratic institutions. The society gets polarized and populists have an easy play.

Democraty in the age of the blockchain

I believe that in order for the public to find their trust back into democratical processes and institutions, it would be necessary to adapt these processes to make them transparent and accessible for everybody. I also believe that the blockchain might be a tool that would come in handy in this process. But it is not simply a matter of technology, it is the whole processes that should be thought through. Why do we need to elect people that we hardly know? Do we still need political parties? Do we need politicians at all? Couldn't the people decide directly with electronical votations on any subject and have a government that simply caries out the decision of the people?

Best regards,
Achim