THELOGICALINDIAN - Despite accepting 7 actor in allotment to aggrandize its blockchain voting app the approaching of Voatz may be on all-a-quiver arena as FBI investigates
Voatz Hack Unsuccessful But Triggers FBI Investigation
If you’ve been touting accuracy and aegis amid the allowances of application blockchain for voting, it turns out, you may accept been premature.
The FBI is currently investigating the 2018 blockchain-based midterm elections in West Virginia afterwards the Voatz app acclimated to aggregate the votes was ‘unsuccessfully’ hacked.
West Virginia’s secretary of accompaniment Andrew Warner accepted at a press conference on Oct 1 that “someone” had approved to drudge the Voatz app during the elections.
The advance was allegedly unsuccessful, about cogent abundant to accession affair from the FBI. Warner stated:
Only 144 West Virginian voters acclimated the blockchain-enabled smartphone app Voatz to casting their ballots.
But while that seems like a baby number, in abutting races, that could be abundant to tip the antithesis in favor of one applicant over another.
In West Virginia, for example, four seats in its House of Delegates were won by beneath 150 votes.
Blockchain Company Less Than Transparent
This is not the aboriginal time that the Voatz app has been acclimated in elections. Both Denver and Utah County acclimated it for their borough and primary elections.
However, advisers are reportedly anxious over assorted issues. One of them is a abridgement of alertness from the aggregation to abet with investigators.
Voatz is allegedly authoritative it harder to appraise its robustness by insisting that auditors assurance non-disclosure agreements.
Moreover, while the app requires multifactor affidavit and claims to additionally use a cardboard aisle for backup, it seems as if voters are clumsy to verify the printout.
Then there’s additionally the audacious actuality that, bootless or not, cyberbanking voting is an actual ambition for hackers.
Voatz may be added defended than casting ballots through email. But the company’s abridgement of accuracy over its processes is absolutely adopting eyebrows.
2024 Blockchain Voting Looking Unlikely
Democratic applicant for the 2020 presidential chase Andrew Yang has alleged blockchain voting ‘essential’.
However, this latest hacking attack makes it alike beneath acceptable that the technology will be acclimated in any way in the elections abutting year.
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