You’ve commented a lot on this, so I feel I have to ask, do you have a stake in cryptocurrency, or is this purely your sincere enthusiasm for the tech? After all, cryptographically secure elections with verifiablity don’t require blockchain tech in the slightest.
I am invested in cryptocurrency, but cryptocurrency really has nothing to do with this. Blockchains are a convenient cryptographic solution to secure elections. There are definitely others, and the fact that blockchains are a convenient solution to this problem should have any implications for the price of any cryptocurrency, because cryptocurrencies rely on distributed consensus algorithms that aren't necessary in the context of elections (where precise temporal ordering doesn't really matter).
Don't get me wrong - there's a ton of hype around blockchains that is completely unjustified. But there are a few applications where it may have some utility, and I think this is one of them. So it irritates me when I see people on HN jump on the "blockchain therefore hype" bandwagon without spending the time to actually think about when this sort of technology is useful and when it isn't.
