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Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. Election integrity was a controversial issue leading up to the 2024 presidential race, but it shouldn’t have been. With the United States presidential election behind us, now is a good time to reflect on the systems that we use to vote across the country so that we minimize any future scepticism about election integrity—whether it’s coming from the right or the left.  According to Gallup, the percentage of Americans saying they are “not at all confident” in the vote being accurately cast and counted in presidential elections has climbed from 6% in 2004 to 19% today. This is largely due to Republicans’ confidence in presidential elections dropping 16 points since 2020, while Democrats’ trust in those same elections has remained high, with around 84% feeling “very/somewhat confident.”  Let’s put the reasons for this disparity between parties to the side for a moment. The fact that 19% of American voters are not at all confident in the way voting is handled during a presidential election is a real problem. Whether it’s people voting multiple times with mail-in ballots, election machines being vulnerable to hackers (see the HBO documentary Kill Chain), dead people voting, or plain-old voter intimidation tactics, there are a number of attack vectors that can be exploited in today’s current system, regardless of party affiliation. In other parts of the world, like Taiwan, voting takes place on a single day with paper ballots that are counted immediately by hand in public view so that the results can be tabulated in six hours. Meanwhile, in the United States, we’ve gotten used to the idea that states like Georgia or Pennsylvania taking days to tabulate votes is acceptable.…

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