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Examine the role of technology in elections

Call for evidence about risks and benefits of introducing blockchain in India's electoral systems

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Samir dayal singh

@turya1

A truly democratic election process, fundamentals

Submitted May 22, 2021

Submisson type: Panel discussion
  1. everyone should be able to understand it
  2. everyone should agree to it
  3. everyone should be able to verify it easily, at all points, hence transparent

One of the learnings we had at HH, while exploring the process of democratic voting, was that the process should be transparent enough to be well understood by the people participants, to be able to trust the process. Without which it may be a perfect process, but forced onto its participants to agree without understanding, a key feature of the current voting system we have.
imho, kindly explore how such processes could be understood by/explained to,
and be often&easily available for verification by the lay man.
I strongly believe in the cause. More power to you.

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  • Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay

    @sankarshan Editor & Promoter

    Thank you for submitting and highlighting the need to discuss explainable and transparent systems. We have been considering exploring this topic once some of the foundational and necessary topics are covered. And as you correctly envision - this topic would be best handled through a panel like format. Can we explore a conversation around putting together a set of panelists on this topic?

    Posted 3 years ago
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      Samir dayal singh

      @turya1 Submitter

      Sure.
      imho, the best time to discuss this is :
      once we have understood all the problems and are about to decide the boundaries within which we would then start exploring solutions.
      Since I see "blockchain" already involved in the problem statement, this should have been discussed before, but i understand that we're exploring other solutions, so it makes sense to think of such a thing right away.
      i agree, and let me see if I can rope in the other guys who were involved closely on this discussion at HH. I totally see the possibility of a panel here, just not sure how long the conversation will go, we can try to summarise in the conversation, all that we had concluded earlier, but never documented.

      Posted 3 years ago

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