Blockchain voting could soon be a reality in South Korea if the trial on a system based on distributed ledger technology turns out successfully. According to The Korea Times, the development of the blockchain-based voting system will be completed in De…
October 1, 2017. A clandestine referendum election is held against the Spanish government’s orders across schools and polling stations throughout Catalonia. It was a day of defiance with an overwhelming “yes” vote to sever ties with t…
Sierra Leone’s National Electoral Commission (NEC) has denied reports that it used blockchain technology to record votes and verify the integrity of the results in its recent presidential election. In a statement posted on the agency’s Twitter account, the NEC stated in no uncertain terms that its systems utilize “an in-house database to tally election
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Calling electronic voting “inevitable,” a new paper by Philip Bucher for the European Parliament speculates on the possibility of Bitcoin’s revolutionary blockchain technology to bring transparency, efficiency, and greater fairness to elections in its various member democracies. The paper first notes that because electronic voting is in its infancy, there are still many unknowns, but […]
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How can a voting platform that touts transparency also be secure? That’s the question posed by Jackie Burns Koven, a Research Assistant of Technology and Public Policy at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs in her published piece by Forbes. It looked into how the solution to safeguard against vote rigging could be through the adoption of blockchain technology […]
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Bitcoin ATM-developer and blockchain-tech firm Blockchain Technologies Corp (BTC) has revealed that it is developing a tamper-resistant voting machine dubbed “VoteWatcher.” New York-based Blockchain Technologies Corp., a blockchain- and bitcoin-centric firm and startup accelerator has revealed that it is currently working on a blockchain voting machine that it deems will be “tamper-resistant”. The machine, dubbed […]
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Recently the Russia’s National Settlement Depository (NDS), an organization that provides settlement and depository services, began testing blockchain technology as a potential solution for a corporate e-proxy voting system. The results will not shock you but the origin of praise for the system just might. NDS began looking into solutions for e-proxy voting in August of […]
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Transparency and accessibility to information have always been issues dealt with during elections. Lest we forget the insanity in the United States during the elections of 2000. Recount after recount to ensure that the votes were properly counted and ultimately the courts decided. Well, Blockchain Technologies Corp. (BTC) is here to change voting. Blockchain Voting success in […]
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Registered members of the Republican party in Utah will be able to nominate a candidate for the United States Presidency by placing a vote without having to visit polling stations by submitting them via the internet at the party’s website. The votes will be submitted and secured on a blockchain. For the first time ever […]
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Students at West Virginia University (WVU) have proposed an innovative blockchain-based voting system for the university’s upcoming Student Government Association (SGA) elections. The Student Government Association in WVU is currently debating the notion of using blockchain-based voting at polling stations as opposed to legacy voting machines, according to The Daily Anthenaeum, the student-run university newspaper. The newly proposed voting system is based on an iPad application that would allow students to vote for the next President and Vice President of the Student body. Students running for the positions are expected to announce their candidacy on December. The blockchain-based voting platform […]
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