University Student Body Mulls over Blockchain Voting System
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....
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West Virginia University's (WVU) Student Government Association (SGA) is debating whether to use a blockchain-based voting platform for its upcoming elections, according to the college's student-run newspaper, The Daily Athenauem. The initiative, proposed by WVU students Ankur Kumar and Ricky Kirkendall, would allow students to use iPad apps to vote for Student Body President and Vice President, as opposed to traditional voting machines. If implemented, the students argue, the plan would save the SGA anywhere from $5,000-$7,000, the difference between renting voting machines or purchasing....
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The Bitcoin Foundation today announced to test its upcoming on-blockchain voting system on crowdfunding platform Swarm. As stated in the organization's latest blog, the aim of this project is to bring "greater transparency not the voting process", where every vote is recorded under a secure, cryptographic hash. The foundation however ignored to elaborate the insights of this project - explaining how different it is from the other decentralized voting platforms like BitCongress. Though a theoretically astound concept, the Bitcoin Foundation's voting system project still has taken a long....