Ready For The First Blockchain-Based Voting Machine?

Ready For The First Blockchain-Based Voting Machine?

New York-based Blockchain Technologies Corp (BTC) is in the news with a startling product that it hopes will revolutionize the way the USA votes! The company is hoping that its product, "Blockchain Apparatus' Blockchain-secured Voting Machine," will be able to help stabilize the crumbling existing voting structure with its more secure voting machines. On its website the company is unambiguous when it states its agenda in the following words: "America's voting machine technology - or lack thereof - is a looming crisis. Many states use voting machines that are over 10 years old that are not....


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