Showing posts with label blockchain voting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blockchain voting. Show all posts

City in Argentina Supports Ethereum Blockchain Powered Voting...

The city of San Lorenzo, in the south of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, announced that the results of the voting on projects that will be financed by the municipality have been registered in a blockchain based on Ethereum.

According to a press release , the integration of the Argentine Federal Blockchain (BFA) platform was carried out in the 2019 edition of the Participatory Budget of the city, in order to improve the transparency of the voting processes, since anyone can consult them.

Some operating details of this allowed, public and open source blockchain are found in the repository stored in GitLab. There it can be read that BFA works by means of the Consensus of Authority consensus protocol and that all transactions made in the network are free, since the gas necessary to carry them out is distributed to the nodes periodically through an intelligent contract called Distillery.

The implementation of the Argentine Federal Blockchain technology for registering the votes of the Budget is the first approach that the Municipality of San Lorenzo gives to cryptoactive technology. However, other regions of the country, such as the Province of Misiones and the Marcos Paz Municipality have experimented with this technology for waste management and to reward the timely payment of taxes and civic actions such as recycling.

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Author: Enrique Gonzales
South America News Desk

Blockchain-powered voting makes the process both easier, and more secure - the first successful test-run just proved it!

“The premiere was a success!” said Dieter Müller, head of communications for the city of Zug, Switzersland, which is one of the more affluent cities in the country.  The city just wrapped up their first test run of a new voting system that relies entirely on blockchain technology!

Feedback from those involved has been overwhelmingly positive - "Almost all participants found it easy to vote digitally" says local news outlet Swissinfo.

The factors they evaluated to determinate if it was a success include voter privacy & secrecy, and that votes were both verifiable, and unchangeable.

While this pilot program was just a 'test' with a non-binding vote, Swiss officials believe the ability for someone to have a digital identity secured by blockchain technology could eventually help citizens streamline many other aspects of how they interact with the government - from filing taxes to paying traffic and parking tickets.

Keeping with a common theme among true blockchain evangelists, the City of Zug has also committed to sharing their code and keeping it open source, saying:

"We believe that this technology should not belong to a single company. We will build the e-voting platform 'Open Source' so that people can understand what the technology is and how it works. We want to encourage more people to develop blockchain-based applications for governments worldwide."

There's a similar program also entering a test phase in the United States, specifically West Virginia.  The program there will begin with US Military personal currently overseas, allowing them to vote in their states Senate election remotely. They believe there are some major advantages to both the voter and the state, and that the ability to vote digitally and securely will one day replace mailing absentee ballots to citizens currently outside of the country.

All of this brings up an interesting possibility - the masses are likely to be introduced to blockchain technology first though something besides cryptocurrency.  But naturally, once the public sees how it improves one area of life, seeing the benefits cryptocurrencies offers over older traditional financial systems also becomes more apparent.
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Author: Justin Derbek
New York News Desk