Improve the transparency of elections, blockchain creates an open and transparent voting system

The US presidential primary election is in full swing, and there are still a few months until the referendum in November. So the question is, how to ensure that the vote is fair, just, authentic and reliable? This is the most critical part of the election.

We all know that in the US election, all American voters have to go to designated locations to vote. Not only do they have to spend a long time on the road, but many polling stations also have long queues. The shortcomings of paper ballots are becoming more and more obvious, so some people have proposed using online voting. In fact, in this era when mobile devices such as computers and smartphones and the Internet are popular, using online voting should be able to solve these problems well, but in fact, the US election has not yet adopted online voting. The reason is that the security and reliability of the voting platform cannot be ensured. Not only that, David Dill, an expert in online voting systems and a professor at Stanford University, once asserted that a perfect online voting system may never appear. The reason is that in addition to the destruction and tampering of ballots by hackers and computer viruses, there is also human interest manipulation.

It can be said that ensuring that votes are not tampered with and preventing fraudulent voting is indeed a difficult task, but is it really impossible to achieve? Perhaps the solution lies in blockchain, which makes it possible for voting to be networked and electronic. Blockchain is like a huge ledger, where information is automatically recorded and automatically processed by a decentralized network of computing devices around the world, open to all participants, and prevents information from being tampered with.

In fact, using blockchain technology to create an open and transparent voting system is no longer just a concept. Many companies and even government agencies are already doing this. Global stock trading giant Nasdaq announced in February that it is developing a shareholder electronic voting system based on blockchain technology. The project is currently being tested at the Nasdaq OMX Tallinn Stock Exchange in Estonia. The Ukrainian government intends to use e-Vox, a transparent voting solution developed based on Ethereum technology, for future general elections. Startups around blockchain voting applications are also on the rise, such as Voatz in Boston, which uses smartphones and blockchain technology for voting and counting, making elections more economical and transparent, and combating voting fraud.

At present, the voting system in the United States is certainly opaque, insecure, and easy to tamper with. This fact is unlikely to be reversed in the upcoming presidential election. But the good news is that the emergence of blockchain has provided a solution to the problem. The US presidential election every four years may not make voters have a high demand for this blockchain voting system. In fact, blockchain can be used to solve voting problems of any scale and in any field.

Compiled by: printemps
Source: Babbitt Information (http://www.8btc.com/blockchain-solve-vote)