NYT editorial on blockchain and online voting

Written by Alex Tapscott of the Blockchain Research Institute, it's a great article and argument as far as it goes. But it glosses over a number of key issues/assumptions:

• That all enfranchised voters can get, and remember how to use, a digital ID
• That there would be a ready way to move this ID between devices - how many of YOU are using the same phone you used in 2016? 2014? 1988 (my first election)? 
• That all enfranchised voters have access to such a device in the first place - yes, smart phones are nearly ubiquitous, but that's not the same as 100% access. 
• That the problem of multiple users/device can be solved - think public libraries, retirement homes, homeless shelters, etc.
• Most importantly, the author rightly notes that "There is no shortage of politicians in power who benefit from the inaccessibility, insecurity, or lack of public faith in the electoral process. They have every reason to cast doubt upon, or outright oppose, an improvement in the way elections are run." This is an issue on all sides of the political arena. 

The article is definitely worth a read: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/opinion/online-blockchain-voting.html