# kaal:claim:3709041-025

**Claim.** 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.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

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

**Source quote.**

> 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.

**From.** Kaal, *Blockchain Technology for Good* (2020), II.2 Microdemocracy, page 16

**Cite as.** Kaal, Blockchain Technology for Good (2020). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3709041

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**Failure mode.** incumbent capture of blockchain voting  (family: incumbent-resistance-to-adoption)

**Topics.** blockchain, governance-design

**Keywords.** public-blockchain, private-blockchain, voting-technology, political-will

**Related claims.**

- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808867-021

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