Lack of reliable, authoritative attribution of changes and no rollback or compensatory transactions are all dealbreakers.

Yeah who doesn't want a ledger you cannot change, sounds like a good idea. /s

But with good legal backing, all you need is a shared database and maybe basic cryptographic signatures to prove ownership in case of malicious actors. So basically, traditional banking.

There are far better global ledger approaches than blockchain.

Proposed ideas for block chain to maintain election integrity would only use a block chain ledger to verify counts, not store voter information.

I'm not really sure what you're getting at. The blockchain is a good mechanism to maintain a source of truth that is inspectable and verifiable by anyone. It would only serve to certify that official counts can't be tampered with in certain ways.

But it doesn't replace the whole democratic voting process. It doesn't protect against coercive voting, for instance.

My point originally was that blockchain can be of use to us, but tech bros ruined its rep. Same with AI. I've been waiting for routers with ai-powered (really, just machine learning) firewalls that can adapt rules to environments. But instead of that, everyone is obsessed with generative stuff that isnt very good.

Or several other solutions for different use cases. I always remember this article about alternatives: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/a90e21e3d06e1ad924a1bfdfe3c16902