The guy behind Flux Party actually posted here last year with a similar idea:
The main difference from now is that in the linked thread, they conceded the system would be hard to manage as a political party where every member gets a vote. They had initially proposed a kind of minor party coalition, where each party gets X votes based on how highly they preference the NVB/Flux Party at elections.
Several questions were raised about the practicality of the system. I don’t think many of them have been addressed, particularly the ones around security raised by @danielrheath. So every member gets one vote - in practice, what defenses are there against one person or group of people stealing your info and using your vote however they want? Even people with literally millions of dollars stored on their computers are unable to secure them against attack. How do you expect your average Aussie voter or minor party to keep their digital voting tokens safe?
Some of @XertroV’s comments on security in the thread:
In the early years it will be mostly parties using this system, so easy to manage the security of it with so few actors. Also, since everything is done on the blockchain it’s super easy to notice when things happen you don’t approve. The authority and voter can work together to nullify any attack quickly.
This is clearly unworkable for a system that aims to encompass every voting person in the country. Most people don’t care that much about online security, let alone politics (current company excluded of course!). They will sign up to Flux using the same password they use for their email, their Facebook, their dodgy shopping sites, their dating profiles… they will forget about it in a few weeks and won’t notice or care if someone has quietly taken their vote. You’d only need a small number of stolen votes to have a big impact on policy.
Of course, this is all playing along with the idea that this is a real attempt at forming a political party and not a masterful satire of our corporate-owned Senate… or a ‘blockchain awareness’ stunt 