United Russia, the ruling party of the Russian Federation, has launched a blockchain-based platform for electronic voting, local news organization reported on March 6.
United Russia has reportedly launched an updated site for its primaries with the additional feature of e-voting. Vyacheslav Sateyev, the party’s head of IT projects stated that the vote count method is implemented using blockchain technology. He additionally stated:
"Candidates are able to fill in their personal pages on this web site, as well as posting news, videos, photos, distributing their pages. The private account is currently integrated with all social networks. We’ve additionally created an adaptive version of the site for mobile phones."
Only voters who had completed the authorization method on the online portal providing electronic state services will participate in and vote. The e-voting system is supposedly developed to enhance election transparency and eliminate intermediates within the electoral method.
The primaries are a straw vote held by United Russia for nominating party candidates at all levels for the final elections. The decisions made within the primaries aren't essentially binding. In 2016, a number of candidates from United Russia who didn't participate within the primaries ran in the general elections for the state Duma.
Last month, the town council of Moscow, Russia’s capital town, submitted a bill to use blockchain technology for an electronic voting system. The Moscow town Duma, an area parliament of the Moscow, plans to guard the method and results of electronic voting within the upcoming elections through the utilization of blockchain technology.
In December of last year, city Oblast, a region in Southern Russia, conducted a reportedly victorious blockchain-based election with 40,000 participants. Participants voted to elect members of the native Youth Parliament via the blockchain-driven electronic polling system Polys, developed by Kaspersky Labs in 2017.
Earlier these days, Top Market Group reported that the capital and most populous town within the U.S. state of Colorado, Denver, can use a smartphone app based on blockchain technology for municipal elections this might. To realize this goal, the town and County of Denver has partnered with mobile voting platform Voatz, technical supplier Tusk Philanthropies and also the National Cybersecurity Center.
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