What's your opinion on distributed verification of blocks? I can see arguments on both sides. If we assume that a vote is a private-key signed 'transaction' then atomically they ought to be pretty secure. In that regard I think that individuals would be unable to create fake votes and so the main concern for a fake-vote attack would be a major organization. I think the best defense against that would then be to allow citizens (verified by another private-key signed login and a government repository of public keys) to verify the blocks in addition to the base government block verification infrastructure. Maybe there could be some kind of tax credit offered to the people who do that.
RE: Hey Steemit, can blockchain technology increase voter turnout and participation?