Blockchain voting is the alternative for trusted democratic elections

There is a way to give the voting system greater legitimacy and veracity: backing it with blockchain technology.

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Blockchain Voting: what if blockchain could change the way we vote?

Put 3 cups of massive abstention, add a pinch of coronavirus, and sprinkle of previous interference scandals. Boil it all together and you’ll get what the voting system looks like today. Somehow it’s archaic in its paper format, not tamper-proof in its counting, often in conflict with our digitalized – and now social distancing – […]

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A Gov official in South Korea proposed the nation’s first blockchain voting platform

This region in South Korea may adopt a blockchain voting system.

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Russian Parliament Pushes Forward With the Waves-based Blockchain Voting; Despite ID Issues

First reported by Russian media, Kommersant, the newspaper, highlighted that Yaroslavskaya and Kurskaya parliamentary elections scheduled for September 13 would leverage this blockchain solution for remote voting.

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Blockchain voting hailed a success at Michigan Democrat convention

This was one of the first virtual conventions in the US to utilize blockchain voting.

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US Rep. Darren Soto is excited about the recent USPS blockchain voting patent

Can blockchain help settle the mail-in voting debate?

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Blockchain Voting is Vulnerable to Hacking and Low-Quality Data: Research

Some major issues must be resolved before blockchain voting becomes trustworthy, according to a new study

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Blockchain Voting Systems — Can Democracy Rely on Them?

In the wake of West Virginia’s recent blockchain voting scandal, we investigate whether these platforms are really as good as advertised

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Blockchain Voting via Voatz Launches in Utah County for August’s Municipal Primary Election

Utah County is the third jurisdiction to adopt blockchain technology for their voting processes. The first two states to add blockchain voting to select areas were Colorado and West Virginia. Blockchain technology has many benefits, as industries around the world have come to find.

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Cornell University Researchers Formulates Bribery-Resistant Blockchain Voting Strategy

Bribery Resistant Blockchain Voting Strategy Cornell University researchers recently published an exploratory blockchain post that describes the risks and promises of blockchain voting. The post identified blockchain and smart contracts, which are also known as ECDDs, as the technology that may be able to facilitate -voting.

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Zug Blockchain Voting System Hailed A Success, Although Participation Was Low

Crypto Valley, a cryptocurrency haven in Zug, Switzerland has made headlines recently for the local authorities move to develop a blockchain based voting system which utilises the towns current digital ID system.

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Switzerland's “Crypto Valley” Successfully Completes Blockchain Voting Trial

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Lausanne Tests Blockchain Voting after Successful Poll in Zug

The implementation of blockchain in public polls is in line with government plans to introduce eVoting in Swiss legislation.

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Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin’s idea of Quadratic voting: Interesting but vulnerable

Blockchain seems like the ideal technology for online voting since they enable smart contracts, which can execute on the block elections autonomously and put an end to election authorities. On May 21st, Vitalik Buterin published on his blog about “Quadratic Voting” [QV].

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Zug’s Voting Commissioner Calls Election a success despite low turnout.

The Swiss city of Zug’s first local blockchain-based municipal vote has been successfully completed, the Swiss News Agency reported yesterday, July 2. Zug, also known as Crypto Valley, announced plans to trial a blockchain voting system using the city’s digital ID (eID) system, launched in November 2017, that allows citizens to vote on their mobile

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Zug’s Head of Comms Calls City Blockchain Voting Test a ‘Success’, Despite Low Turnout

Zug’s blockchain-based municipal vote trial was deemed a “success” by the city’s head of communication, despite low voter turnout

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Crypto Valley Declares Blockchain Voting Trial a 'Success'

Zug, home of the "Crypto Valley" in Switzerland, has successfully completed its first test of a blockchain-based voting system.

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But Who’s In Control of the $2 Billion Code? Tron’s Election Is Underway

The $2 billion cryptocurrency network Tron kicked off an election this week – one of the last steps in its efforts to launch its official blockchain. Prior to the launch, the Tron Foundation moved to “guarantee” that its funds would be kept separate from the voting process. It promised to announce the addresses within three

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EOS Transaction Fees Skyrocket, BPs Hoarding Ram, Block One to Start Voting

The no transaction fees blockchain has seen costs for new accounts rise to nearly $4, up from $1 just a few days ago. Ram, which sort of stands for storage... The post EOS Transaction Fees Skyrocket, BPs Hoarding Ram, Block One to Start Voting appeared first on Trustnodes.

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Teambrella ICO

There is a conflict of interest between insurance companies and policyholders. Teambrella proposes a way to solve this issue by implementing a system that provides peer-to-peer coverage. Peers have mutual control on most aspects of their coverage, such as risk evaluation and processing of payments.

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What is Eximchain? | The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide

Eximchain (EXC) is a blockchain network aimed at revolutionizing the supply chain. The platform offers promising new possibilities into how global business can be improved through the use of blockchain and smart contract technology.

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Zug Starts Blockchain Voting Trial

Crypto Valley’s Zug has become the first local in the world to hold a non-binding blockchain based citizens’ vote which began on June 25th and will continue until July the... The post Zug Starts Blockchain Voting Trial appeared first on Trustnodes.

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Switzerland’s Getting Into Blockchain Voting

The town of Zug will start a trial run of a blockchain election system, allowing citizens to vote on a couple of soft issues.

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Over $200 Million in Public, Private Blockchain Initiatives from South Korean Government

According to the Ministry’s official announcement, the new initiative will foster 10,000 blockchain industry professionals and 100 companies, and will expand and commercialize six existing blockchain pilots with the Ministry’s backing.

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PR: Essentia.one Earmarks $11m to Foster Development of Projects Based on Its Protocol

The decentralized interoperability protocol Essentia is set to launch a fund valued at over $11 million to expand their ecosystem and incentivize projects to be built on top of the platform. The fund will drive development of a thriving program to accelerate real world adoption of blockchain technology, based around Essentia’s enterprise-oriented solutions, while forging close ties with the community, without whom we could not have reached this stage.

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Blockchain Network Takes on ‘Flawed’ Steemit by Offering Lifetime Earnings to Creators

A new blockchain-based content rewards platform is rivaling Steemit by giving all users equal voting power – “boosting” the earnings of smaller content creators #SPONSORED

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After vote threshold is met eos blockchain is finally live

After months of testing and voting, the EOS blockchain is finally live. Go EOS!! According to the data from EOS voting page, more than 17% of the EOS tokens have cast a vote. For the EOS blockchain to go live, 15 percent of the total EOS tokens in supply had to be used to elect the

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EOS Celebrates Successful Vote, The Blockchain Is Now Live

As initial doubts and technical difficulties were overcome, voting picked up, quickly reaching and surpassing the required threshold.

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Vote Threshold Is Met: EOS Can Finally Launch Its Platform

According to data from EOS Authority, EOS has finally acquired the minimum votes required for its network to go live. After EOS failed to launch its platform on its projected launch date of June 2, a live-stream vote was called, where users voted “Go” to launch the blockchain network.

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Ethereum [ETH] for voting, safe or not? Buterin’s perspective

Ethereum’s co-founder, Vitalik Buterin has advised Swiss City government to test blockchain petitions before digital voting. The Swiss city of Zug, which is known to be proactive in its support to the blockchain industry, recently announced that it would be launching a voting pilot which will base on both polling system and residents’ IDs on […]

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EOS Voting: At This Pace, Blockchain May Go Live Within Days

Already 9% of the EOS tokens have voted, out of the required quorum of 15%.

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Ethereum [ETH] based app to digitize Swiss’ city while they plan to test blockchain-based voting

Zug, a city in Switzerland opened up to the blockchain world as they are to conduct their entire voting system using the Blockchain technology. The entire city’s residents will use their eID system to vote using their smartphones during the trial to be held this month. Zug will allow residents to take part in a […]

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Crypto Valley Conference And Zug’s New Blockchain Voting System

The upcoming Crypto Valley conference in Zug, Switzerland will bring together the finest academic and business minds in the crypto-industry. Set in the sleepy town of Zug, the conference aims to open up brand new discussions on the implications of blockchain technology and the future of the blockchain industry.

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Good to “GO” votes are in, EOS mainnet updates goes live

On June 9th, the launch of the EOS blockchain has validated their goals towards reaching more than $4 billion to help develop their open-source software over a year-long ICO. Candidates in the role of validators and “block producers” from all across the world have successfully established their power by voting “GO” to the mainnet live. […]

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