Candidate for Kenyan Elections Body Says Adopting Blockchain Will Reduce Ball...
An aspirant to the post of commissioner with the Kenyan Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has urged the elections body to consider adopting blockchain technology. According to Justus Abonyo, a former official with the Social Democratic Party of Kenya, doing this will help Kenya reduce the cost of “running an election by up to 300 per cent.” Enhanced Transparency As the breakdown of the costs shared by Abonyo suggests, using an electoral management system based on a blockchain will see the cost of the ballot going down to as low as $0.50. The candidate....
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One electoral commission aspirant in Kenya has said the country should consider adopting blockchain-based voting. Justus Abonyo, former chair of Kenya’s Social Democratic Party, and current candidate for commissioner of the country’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), has called for the adoption of blockchain voting.According to a report by Kenyan news outlet The Star, Abonyo made this appeal known while appearing before the selection committee overseeing the appointment of IEBC commissioners at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre on Thursday.Detailing his....
There has unfortunately been recent confusion with the Bitcoin Foundation Elections. We attempted to highlight the new criteria in our first article covering the Foundation elections and at the end of each following candidate article, gently nudged people that they might want to read the initial election article. That due to a recent change in the bylaws, members were required to "activate" their account for voting. This new change came about due to the previous election rules requiring a certain percentage of the membership to vote for a candidate for that candidate to win. Because of....
Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA) says the country needs a more encompassing approach that enables it to leverage other regulators’ expertise when testing crypto assets. Kenyan Crypto Interest Also, the Kenyan body, which favours a joint financial sector regulatory sandbox, says it is keen to forge “a common stance and joint-messaging with the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK)” when it comes to cryptos. The CMA’s latest commentary on cryptocurrencies follows the release of the Capital Markets Soundness report of Q1, 2021. According to the quarterly report,....
The Republican Party of Utah State is going online with blockchain based online voting system for choosing the candidate for the Presidential elections. There have been talks about the use of blockchain technology in online voting for a long time. Until now, it was either theoretical or experimental. But now, it is going to be a reality soon. Sooner than expected to be precise. The first ever online blockchain based voting in the United States is happening today. The State of Utah will be the first state to use the blockchain technology to nominate a Republican candidate for the United....
Here is an update on what is going on with the Bitcoin Foundation elections. The Bitcoin Foundation polls are closed now! The Bitcoinfoundation.org has updated as follows: Voting for the Bitcoin Foundation’s two open industry board seats ended last night at 11:59pm EDT. Results will be published here today at around 6:30pm. “We had a great turnout for this round of voting and want to thank our industry members for getting so involved! Nearly 75% of our industry members voted with 102 out of the possible 137 ballots submitted.” A candidate will need at least 52 votes to win a seat. If no....