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US Postal Service Files A Patent For Voting System Combining Mail And A Blockchain

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Get ready soon for a new way to vote! You gotta love it for you can't leave It! Soon the whole earth of citizens can vote after being categorized and given a number to be eligible to vote.
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The Postal Service filed a patent application on February 7, 2019 for a "secure voting system." The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) made the application public on August 13, following a routine 18-month quiet period.

The new-age voting system, if approved and implemented, would use a combination of traditional mail and machine-readable code. Specifically, the USPS would deliver registered voters a barcode of sorts that confirms identity and ballot information when uploaded online.

"The system separates voter identification and votes to ensure vote anonymity, and stores votes on a distributed ledger in a blockchain," the inventors explain in the patent abstract



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  • Nanuq907
    "the USPS would deliver registered voters a barcode"
    How is that better than what we have now?  Who decides what "registered voter" means?  And is this going to signal the end of the Electoral College?  
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