The idea is that after the balloting is collected, the records will be uploaded to the blockchain for future generations and accountability.
http://www.coindesk.com/libertarian-party-texas-logs-votes-presidential-electors-blockchain/I'm fine with this but it's not as exciting as other potential applications would be. If there was a way to verify each vote individually other than just use the blockchain to archive the result after counting this would have been more of a significant event.
I think this would not only just be exciting, but yet a huge success of revolutionizing the shadiness of elections. Also, from what I gathered from the article was that they are doing the "old fashioned" method of using paper ballots, but also scanning and uploading the results on florincoin and also, I guess, "test" if it's possible to hash out the results on a private bitcoin blockchain?
To make the idea of using a blockchain less daunting to the convention attendees, paper ballots will be used to actually mark the votes. Each ballot will then be digitally uploaded using two scanners with a third back-up using BTCs patent-pending technology.
Published in January of this year, the patent application for the voting machine describes how the device uses private keys to digitally sign voting data and broadcast the results along with a public key to the distributed network. The signed voting data is then stored with its public key on a blockchain database managed by the voting machines.
