The blockchain might be an excellent adjunct to the American voting procedure, but if there is no means to determine whether the voter casting a given vote is a lawfully registered voter, the blockchain ledger cannot bring virtue to the polls. The fight in the past has been with mostly Democrats claiming that authentication of a voter is a "chilling" and racially motivated obstacle to universal voting rights for Americans created by extremists hostile to "real democracy." In short, they claim that any voter registration targets the poor. The courts seem to agree with this more often than not. As former President Obama appointed a boatload of these, there is likely to be continued resistance to meaningful voter-registration reform.