We are missing the potential of Blockchain when it comes to casting votes.

Think about it:

Right now, in the United States, we have a "representative government".

What does this mean in a nutshell?

Basically, other people are elected to represent YOU inside the government. This is done because, theoretically, you cannot physically walk yourself down to Washington D.C. and cast votes.

What's stopping us from casting votes online? Well, a million things.

For one, it's pretty hackable... Right? If we voted online on important issues, the potential for hacking is MASSIVE. If we are afraid about the Russians hacking our elections, when we vote in person, then obviously people would be flipping their shit over tables if we were voting online.

It would be a security nightmare.

Furthermore, it'd be impossible to convince people of the possibilities, given the technologies we currently have at our disposal. 

This is where Blockchain provides massive opportunity.

Why? Because Blockchain makes it possible to create a more secure system. Essentially, using a system yet to be created, we could potentially guarantee that a person's vote is A. secure and B. actually coming from them instead of a proxy of some sort.

This would be more secure than using a SSN.

More secure than going through some government website.

It could be verifiable, if done properly.

Would the government ever adopt this? Probably not.

What we must do is create this system at a grassroots level. Create something and start using it for purposes unrelated to government. Maybe a software for corporations to quickly survey their employees? Perhaps something used to gather data from a small town?

Once that software is more mainstream and distributed, it could become self-sustaining.

Meaning that it wouldn't matter what the government wanted to do... They would have no choice if the citizenry voted, using this platform, to start using it on their own.

The government's opinion wouldn't matter.

Am I talking craziness here?

Well, this technology would probably be laughed at by the "old guard"... Mocked by the generation currently at the top of the pyramid.

But you know what they say about the "old guard"...