Congressman Gabe Amo (D-RI) and Congresswoman Young Kim (R-CA) believe that blockchains can help protect democratic values, citing evidence of the Bitcoin blockchain being used to safeguard election results.
In a hotly contested election for local Republican party leadership in Williamson County, TN, Simple Proof, a company that safeguards public records using the Bitcoin blockchain, was called in to preserve the integrity of the results.
As the electoral engine of the United States purrs to life, many are questioning the point of it all. Aristophanes makes sense of the interplay between public referendum and elite constituencies in “The Primary Issue”.