# kaal:claim:3808867-021

**Claim.** Decentralized voting solutions require political will as well as technology, and governments in existing representative democracies may refuse to surrender control over the voting process, preferring private blockchains to facilitate voting outcomes.

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

**Holds when.**

- government controlled voting infrastructure

**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.** Wulf A. Kaal, *How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI* (2021), III. Technological Microdemocracy, page 11

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808867

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `eeccf6d0587bd278a96ce6ac8ec5003e26d161c245f6c94b4144d84f374802eb` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20How%20Decentralized%20Systems%20Can%20Upgrade%20AI.pdf

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

**Topics.** blockchain, governance-design

**Keywords.** blockchain-voting, political-will, private-blockchain, governance

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3709041-025

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