If we want honest elections, we can have them now. The technology is well proven.
Ask yourself, when was the last time BitCoin was hacked?
Jan 16th, 2022, according to CBS, CNN, and NBC:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/crypto-com-hack-bitcoin-ethereum-30-million/.
Yes, it was actually a Bitcoin exchange that got hacked, not the blockchain itself. However, it is the exchanges that convert between Bitcoin and local currency.
That would be never - why? BlockChain technology. The distributed nature of blockchain provides no central point of access for attackers. We could roll out a blockchain system by 2024 that would provide 99.9999% secure voting, could be done from any smart phone, computer, tablet, you name it. Each voter would be positively identified, no chance for ballot stuffing or proxy voting.
Blockchains do not positively identify or verify any legal status of anything. They simply record transactions.
Bitcoin, as popular as it is, has become a heavily loaded blockchain. Copying this massive thing around has become unwieldy, so many that once accepted Bitcoin are now no longer accepting it. It's slow. Conduction an election with one would quickly become unwieldy (even if blockchains DID work that way!) and it wouldn't improve security at all. Fake identifiers, and the fake ballots they would generate would still be possible under an election blockchain. The blockchain does would not discriminate a fake voter and a so-called verified one. ANYONE can create an identifier.
Blockchains simply do not work that way. Their use is in creating a limited set of tokens (some people refer to this as Bitcoin 'mining'), and conducting transactions with them. The blockchain itself is based on an algorithm that specifies the condition of a token to be on the blockchain. Such token is called a 'coin' on the Bitcoin algorithm and related currency algorithms.
As an election system, it simply wouldn't work. Blockchains don't work that way.
And for this reason, the democrats will die before they allow it. Honest elections mean democrats never win another election.
Democrats would LOVE to see 'blockchain' voting. Using this buzzword, they could easily stuff ballots and get away with it because most people do not understand the very nature of the blockchain and they think of it as somehow 'secure'.
No, a far better method is to take the machines out of it completely. Hand count, using very small precincts. This is easily observed by contesting parties. Verify voting records and regularly expunge dead people and those that have moved away from the records. Allow those who have multiple residences to vote in only ONE jurisdiction (cross compare records across precincts and States to verify).
Aggressively enforce election laws, and actually imprison violators as criminals (no catch and release program). Allow only authorized personnel to certify each precinct and the collective whole. For President and Vice President, that's the legislatures of each State and no one else. It should be illegal for anyone serving any position in the election office to run for any office.
At least seven States never chose their electors in 2020. The governor race in AZ was counted by one of the contestants (the Democrat one, of course).
Election fraud by Democrats continues to be a problem. Aggressive enforcement is necessary to combat this. That last thing anyone needs is an election system running on the internet or through any algorithm on a computer of any kind.
Better to go back to passing the hat around, so to speak, and count by hand.