To develop secure Internet voting requires a continuous iterative engineering process which is basically going to mean trial and error. The same sort of trial and error required to come up with the paper ballot approach which itself is not invulnerable to being hacked or I should say, manipulated. In my opinion Internet voting needs to be tested on a small scale until we find a way to do it which is secure enough to be scaled, but if we halt all trials it guarantees we will not find anything.
In addition, I don't think the search should be centralized. I don't think only the DHS or National Science Foundation should be qualified to try to solve these problems. I don't know that they do not have an agenda whether political or other. So I would say I prefer an effort which includes DARPA who is known for being successful at this kind of thing.
I don't know how to define "world government". I do think digital governance can be global but I don't assume it will be "world government". I don't assume one government will rule them all, but I do support the building of virtual governance technologies so we can experiment and learn from trial and error.
Yes we do need to put this great potential to the test as you say. But it certainly looks like they are not going to permit this system of efficient and " clean " voting to get off the ground as maybe this system is too "transparent " and does not for this very reason, suit them !
Of course you are right when you say that the research should be made by a joint global imitative and again not be put in the hands of the few for the loss of the many. World government does not need to exist in my opinion. But the worlds voice could be found by this system development, we just need the present political system to embrace and accept the possibilities of this blockchain technology and that which it could potentially bring to the table and lives of everybody living on this planet. This is surely something we could see as being a major step towards " world governance? " as the voice of the world could be collected and counted for the greater good of all.
But then " world government " is just a term and is in many ways not even important, the only thing which is important is that we try, like you say and see what can be done.
Its very sad and i would say a little disturbing to see that we are still far from this ever being the case. The very proof being the passing of this new law which you expose in this post. This law shows clearly their desire and more need to stem all online voting technologies development they are clearly not ready to renounce on their present system which I think we all see is flawed and open to negative manipulations.