Voatz Blockchain Voting Platform Growth
March 11 2019 - 12:23PM
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March 11, 2019 -- ADVFN Crypto NewsWire -- Blockchain
technology offers the potential to solve most of the issues facing
government voting procedures today. Paper-based voting is still
used in the majority of situations, because digital options have
not yet reached the level of security that physical voting does.
Supporters for paper-based systems argue that it is much harder to
change a vote cast on paper rather than a digital form. For early
alternatives to paper, this may be true. Options were primarily
based on pdf format documents that were transmitted via
email.
However, Voatz is bringing the
cryptographic security of blockchain technology to the option pool.
The company began in 2017, gaining funding and developing their
business model before launch in early 2018. Their ability to gain
government testing in America was focused on giving military
personnel who are stationed overseas a more secure and more
accessible format for voting. The U.S. state of Virginia
successfully used their platform.
Voatz in
Colorado
The city of Denver in Colorado,
U.S. will be adding likely beading to the 30 successful pilot votes
using Voatz technology. The system processed more than 15,000 votes
in its largest election to date. In contrast to the state of
Virginia, Colorado will be using the city of Denver as an
experiment for more than jus5t military personnel. Any citizens of
Denver are allowed to sign up for blockchain voting who live out of
the country for any reason.
“We believe this technology has the
potential to make voting easier and more secure not only for our
active duty military and overseas citizens, but also for voters
with disabilities, who could potentially vote independently and
privately using their phones’ assistive technology.” - Jocelyn
Bucaro, deputy director of elections at the Denver Office of Clerk
and Recorder
The total international voters in
Denver would be about 4,000 people. This type of system replaces
older technology. Under federal law in America, governments must
provide a digital voting option to overseas voters. But it provides
other benefits as well. Digital voting could help the city meet
tight deadlines. Physically counting votes is inconsistent and time
consuming. The system uses phones’ biometric features, such as face
identification and fingerprints for secure identification. Users
upload a 10-second video of themselves and a picture of their photo
ID to register.
“If the pilot is successful, we’re
hoping other cities in Colorado that fall under home-rule might
consider using it in some of their local elections.” Jocelyn
Bucaro
By: BGN Editorial Staff
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