Sentences with phrase «processing popular petitions»

Costa added that, in Brazil, there is no secure method of gathering votes and signatures from the people when processing popular petitions.

For instance, if the Brazilian government was to process its popular petitions on the Ethereum blockchain, which it plans to do in the future, only around 500,000 votes could be processed a day.

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In the former case, a particular law will have been passed by the legislature and then it is put to a popular vote for affirmation / overturning, and in the latter case a new law is proposed by the people (generally through a petitioning process) and then voted on by the populace.

The Brazilian government is seeking to move popular petitions, an inefficient electoral system of the country, onto the Ethereum network, to process hundreds of millions of votes on the immutable Blockchain network.

Popular petitions are an important part of the political process in Brazil, but current methodology makes them almost impossible to use.