Re:Public Trust Demands Open-Source Voting Systems
by didibus on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @04:43PM
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Yes and no. Confirmation takes time. But it heavily depends on the crypto. Some can be pretty fast. Once confirmed it's guaranteed, it won't drop off.
Assuming you can vote from the comfort of your phone or home, that's kind of the whole point, it doesn't matter much if you have to wait even 30 min to get confirmation.
Dropping votes is as problematic as allowing too many.
In general, money transactions have failure modes that don't match what we want for other use cases. That's the same trap as using credit card payments for ID verification, it only works if you don't actually care about the ID.