How do you propose to detect fraudulent votes? An account with 250k might vote, and then delegate or transfer that SP to another account and be able to vote again. What about folks selling their votes? Will that be considered fraud? If so, how do you propose detecting such fraud?

Thanks!

Edit: I also regard your exclusion of those blacklisted as unacceptable. There are many, many folks that have run afoul of the users running blacklists for reasons unrelated to fraud. Personal antipathy is rampant, and is not an acceptable reason to exclude folks from standing for election.

Folks that have been blacklisted for fraud will certainly have their history on the blockchain examined by voters prior to election. There is no reason to exclude them unless you fear that supporters of fraud possess nominal SP to elect them to office.

If that is the case, Steemalliance is already doomed anyway.

In the interest of fairness and open government, I call upon you to rescind the ineligibility of blacklisted accounts from standing for election. Otherwise you face the prospect of what has long been apparent in American electoral politics: all candidates eligible for election are those captive to powers behind the scenes, none of whom will undertake their office with integrity.