RE: Blockchain & Elections (Venezuela Chapter)
Interesting subject and I agree with you, but if it comes to voting.. what makes you think the present governments do want a honest vote without any corruption?
I can only speak for the country I live in.
As long as I can remember the media always said: what is chosen in the USA will be chosen with us too. It always was kind of like that. Not only in Holland but also in the rest of western Europe (how can that be? The countries/people and their habits are completely different from the USA).
We once had an election by computer instead of filling out a paper. Those computers (voting machines) were very expensive and after that not used anymore/thrown away because?
The last elections we had were on the old fashioned way. Volunteers were counting by hand. It is proved that there was fraud (just like in Austria, Germany, France, etc), that votes been thrown away. The people did ask to vote again. This was ignored. It was the first time we did not "vote" the same as the USA. I heard many governments in Europe payed for the elections in the USA and wanted Hillary (they did not tell or ask the people if they agreed with that... so that is in what they invest the taxes while we have more and more foodbanks and poverty is increasing).
By now even the right of a referendum is taken away by our present government. The people do not count! This all is not about the people, but about some people who want to rule the world.
I have big doubts if there is still democracy. If it comes to it we, the people, are just the dumb donkeys pulling the car, making some people rich by keep paying taxes.
Everything nowadays we need to do by computer, via the Internet. Banking, talking to the government, health care insurance, etc etc. We all have to use our social security number for it or... the pincode of your bankaccount!
New rule: if you shop online the shop/seller can have a look at your account (privacy?)
As we all know our government is using the most outdated software there is and it is frequently be hacked.
So... if we are forced to live by the Internet how come we are not allowed to vote that way?
Please do always feel free to contact me. Wish you a happy day.
Thank you for being so sincere and human when writing your thoughts dear @wakeupkitty.
I have identified a lot with your approaches. It is incredible that two nations so distant and apparently so different can have similar political bases.
Exactly that happened in my country a couple of years ago. They put so many obstacles and challenges that seemed impossible to avoid the opposition population. Unlikely conditions that had to be met for a recall referendum to the current president's mandate. After so many humiliations, the organized opposition complied with everything demanded by the electoral body. Then the excuse was that the legal lapses for realization had already expired.
As you very well said, "people do not count!"
I know a dutch organisation "more democracy" is still fighting against the present government because of the right of a referendum, but the government simply changed the law (reason was people voted against Ukraine and also they wanted to change the donor law and did so).
History shows things will change. Even the most easy going people will start fighting if this continues. I hope the governments will be wise enough to avoid a next world war.
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War is the most horrendous thing that can happen. Nobody wins. Only death and devastation remain. With the current weapons the destruction of the planet is imminent. An atomic explosion would remove the globe from its magnetic balance causing tsunamis and earthquakes everywhere.
I do not know what the thinking of the current world "leaders" is. They only think of mass domination. My infinite question: "Why?"