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+# Blockchain Voting System
+
+## How current system works
+
+* Users are allowed to vote after their identity is confirmed by an authority.
+* Votes are collected and counted by an authority.
+* The person who has the most votes, have the power for ~4 years, then we vote again.
+
+### Problems
+
+* The elected person can become irresponsible and corrupt within the ~4 year period and the citizens can't do much about this, they just have to wait until the ~4 years will expire.
+* A lot of money are spent for election campaigns because everybody is trying to get power for ~4 years.
+
+## How the new system works
+
+* Users are allowed to vote after their identity is *registered in blockchain and confirmed by an authority*.
+* Votes are stored anonymously on a blockchain.
+* *It's possible to check if an user voted, but it's impossible to check for whom he gave his vote.*
+* Votes are "realtime" (a new block is mined every XX minutes) and can be displayed on a billboard in the center of the town, so the elected person will watch it every day and work hard to maintain people's trust.
+* Users are allowed to change their vote every week (Sunday).
+* If the user didn't changed or updated his vote for X weeks, the vote is expired and deleted. That way the citizens will be more active (also this fixes the problem with dead users)
+
+### Problems
+
+* How to implement: **It's possible to check if an user voted, but it's impossible to check for whom he gave his vote** ?
+* How to implement users?
+
+    * Authentication: biometric or just a key give by an authority. It must be very simple and secure for non technical users.
+    * New user creation - new people who reach 18 years
+    * Anybody must be able to verify if the user who voted is a real person (prevent flood from corrupted central authority who has the ability to create new users)