The Brazilian government seeks to pass popular petitions, an ineffective electoral system of the countries, on the Ethereum network to process hundreds of millions of voices on the immutable Blockchain network

In Brazil, popular petitions allow more than 145 million voters across the country to reach a consensus on important political decisions. But for many decades, political experts and analysts questioned the logistical question of popular petitions, and political commentators have described the structural problem of Brazil's electoral system as the basis of most of the country's political problems. Gabriel Barbosa, a research associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, wrote, "When people live paycheck, or as the saying goes in Brazil," sell their lunch to buy their dinner ", the cost of participation Politics becomes high enough for people to be excluded from the political process, "pointing to the lack of appropriate institutions that deal with the cost of political engagement.

Move to Ethereum

As Quartz's Joon Ian Wong has reported, Brazilian Legislators led by Congressional Legislative Counsel Ricardo Fernandes Paixão and Professor Everton Fraga are studying ways to use the Ethereum Blockchain network for e and deal with votes elections, as part of a larger initiative to improve the Brazilian political system, which The Economist called "sleazy."

The key to employing a Blockchain system in the processing of petitions votes on the Blockchain network immutable as transactions, to ensure that the specific data remains immutable and invulnerable to manipulation.

Essentially, the processing of petition signatures on the Ethereum network would require smart contracts, and the system would work the same way. like other decentralized applications that exist on the network. Brazil's electoral system would act as a decentralized application with an independent digital token, used to process each vote on the Blockchain.

Henrique Costa, a professor of law at the University of Brasilia, told QZ that the lack of an immutable platform for collecting signatures of votes had been a real problem for the government in the past.

"Partly this is due to the lack of a platform capable of collecting the signatures of one percent of the voters.We have gone through some sort of crisis regarding the legitimacy … of our laws Even though popular initiative exists, there is no sure way to collect people's signatures so that people can propose bills themselves. "

In the Brazilian electoral system, the people of the country must be heard in Congress.But, because of the lack of institution and platform that handles petition votes the group that rallies behind a particular petition must also find a legislator to adopt it.

As a result, the likelihood of popular petitions in Congress has decreased considerably, even though many petitions have collected signatures of the percent of the electors.

Mobile Application

Currently, the Brazilian government is studying the possibility of using a mobile application based on the Ethereum Blockchain network with which residents and citizens can submit petition votes. Since decentralized applications can operate on mobile systems, the petition and the Brazilian electoral system can function in the same way.

Since the diffusion of each signature as a transaction is very efficient and costly, the Brazilian government will use a system called hashing to combine all the daily votes into a single transaction and broadcast it to the main Ethereum Blockchain network

Fraga, one of the two main advisers of the project, said that the integration of Ethereum into the inefficient and impractical electoral system of Brazil would be a celebration of democracy. he passes the Congress and becomes enforced. He said: