e-voting News

Russia will employ blockchain technology for electronic voting (e-voting) on the forthcoming constitutional amendment. Among other changes in the country’s constitution is an extension of President Vladimir Putin’s tenure by 12 years. Blockchain Voting to Decide Putin’s Fate In an…

On July 25, 2019, news broke of Kenyan Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru receiving a report from Bitange Ndemeo, which recommends blockchain technology to help tackle problems crippling Kenya such as land fraud, corruption, and solve election disputes. Blockchain’s Fine Qualities…

Blockchain technology, the building blocks of bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptoassets proved once more that it is more than just hype by enabling the results of 25 million votes out of 193 million to be obtained within a few hours,…

Expanding on the blockchain-voting pilot that allowed overseas military operatives and families to vote during the November 2018 mid-term elections, the mobile voting app will now be used during the 2020 presidential elections, which is a concern to some security…

Shareholder voting is getting the blockchain treatment as SWIFT announced on March 6, 2019, that they will be testing out a new blockchain-based platform for that purpose with Deutsche Bank, DBS, HSBC. Put to a Vote All publicly traded companies…

Developers behind Sovereign, an application that combines blockchain technology and Liquid Democracy, are hoping to inspire voters to re-enter the political sphere. A Decaying Political Machine One of the greatest political disappointments of our generation has not been the election…

A little city in a Swiss valley is pioneering blockchain-based identities. The city aims to provide an Ethereum-based identity app for its citizens as early as September 2017 and use it for e-voting in 2018. Zug is one of those…