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West Virginia has teamed up with Tusk/Montgomery Philanthropies (TMP) to actualize the aboriginal blockchain voting belvedere for alive assignment account associates in the United States. This is TMP’s aboriginal adaptable voting app to be field-tested.
“We are never activity to get the adopted admiral to accept to the boilerplate accessible after greater accord in our balloter system,” said Bradley Tusk, Founder of Tusk-Montgomery Philanthropies.
The pilot affairs was launched on March 23 for currently deployed associates of the aggressive and their spouses who are registered in Harrison County and Monongalia County. If the analysis run is successful, it will break inefficiencies in the accepted absentee voting action that abash participation.
Easy and Safe Voting Regardless of Location or Circumstances
West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner was affectionate to the frustrations that alive assignment aggressive cadre can accept while aggravating to vote, accepting served in the U.S. Army for 23 years.
“Our aggressive account cadre action every day beyond the apple to assure our way of life. They deserve to vote as abundant as anyone, and we owe it to them to accomplish the action as accessible as possible. Whether a Soldier is after mail account in the mountains of Afghanistan, or a Sailor is in a abysmal beneath the arctic icecap, they deserve the befalling to participate calmly in our democracy. They should accept a articulation in allotment who sends them into harm’s way,” Warner said of the issue.
Some aggressive cadre may additionally be clumsy to acquaint because they are complex in a classified mission or contrarily cannot accord abroad their locations after risking their lives and the lives of their comrades.
So some issues that a voting app adeptness charge to break accommodate the adeptness to casting a vote after giving abroad the voter’s area or identity, abbreviation the time bare to vote, and autumn a vote until it is safe and acceptable to address the vote aback to the voter’s belt office.
It is ambiguous whether the Tusk/Montgomery Philanthropies band-aid solves these issues.
Could The Program Be Expanded?
If successful, this or a agnate affairs could calmly be broadcast to serve all voters who ability contrarily accept issues with activity to a concrete polling location. Absentee voting was invented to accomplish it accessible for these bodies to vote, but they may balloon to mail their election in or addition being ability ambush the election and casting their vote for them.
A voting app could accomplish it easier for them to absolutely casting their own votes by arising a admonition to vote on voting day and add added aegis “bells and whistles” such as the use of biometrics or voiceprint analysis in adjustment to ensure that anniversary aborigine has a adventitious to casting his or her own vote.
Extending this pilot affairs to West Virginia’s aggressive cadre makes for a acceptable alpha in agreement of including deployed aggressive cadre who ability not contrarily get the befalling to vote due to circumstances. The pilot will be activated in a bound appearance in the 2024 primary acclamation and on a added widescale base in the 2024 accepted acclamation in November.
