kaal:claim:3709041-025

Blockchain voting solutions require political will as well as technical capability, and incumbent governments may refuse to surrender control over the voting process, preferring private blockchains that preserve their control.

Yet, governments in the existing representative democracies may not wish to surrender control over the voting process and may prefer to use private blockchains to facilitate voting outcomes.

Kaal, Blockchain Technology for Good (2020), II.2 Microdemocracy, p. 16
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Kaal, Blockchain Technology for Good (2020). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3709041

• applies to adoption of public blockchain voting by existing representative democracies

failuresupport: arguedfailure: incumbent capture of blockchain votingfamily: incumbent-resistance-to-adoptionblockchaingovernance-design

• restated_by kaal:claim:3808867-021 Decentralized voting solutions require political will as well as technology, and governments in existing repre...

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