Putting Blockchain to Test for Elections
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 as advocated by some cybersecurity experts who see offline paper-based elections as the ultimate security measure to protect U.S. elections from foreign tampering. This is based on increasing concerns that hackers....
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That being said, scaling decentralized e-voting systems is a complex task. In an interview with Cointelegraph, Charles Hoskinson suggested that a Cardano-based solution might make blockchain voting possible for future national elections. He stated: “Not only do I believe — we've been building the infrastructure for that."Hoskinson acknowledged that the road to Cardano-based elections would be gradual and require a number of experiments. He suggested that it could start with third parties using the network for their primaries, before escalating to municipal and state elections. From there,....
For the first time ever, the results of a U.S. presidential election have been recorded on a blockchain. But is the data valid? Until recently, the use of blockchain in elections was perceived as nothing more than an experiment. However, during the recent United States presidential election, some tried to turn the public's perception of the possibilities of blockchain technology. For example, the Associated Press, one of the largest U.S. media outlets, published the election results on the Ethereum and EOS blockchains. Does this results call, however, suggest that the time to use....
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 then jumps straight to the point: Now we have a further choice; to continue trusting central authorities to manage elections or to use blockchain technology to distribute an open voting record among citizens.....
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....
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. We have been tracking the development of BTC’s tech here at CCN.LA. But just a few weeks ago the folks at BTC took a trip to San Antonio, Texas to demo the technology for the Libertarian Party of Texas’ (LPTexas) 2016 State Convention. The....