THELOGICALINDIAN - The US accompaniment of West Virginia has become the aboriginal accompaniment to analysis a blockchainbased adaptable app for voting This activity will initially alone be accessible to outofstate aggressive personnel
The allowances of blockchain technology accept been broadly publicized, abnormally afterwards cryptocurrencies started burglary the account aftermost year. Core characteristics such as abiding records, security, and ability agency that it can be chip into a advanced array of industries, such as supply alternation management and alike voting.
In fact, the closing is absolutely what the US accompaniment of West Virginia is acquisitive to use the technology for. By teaming up with Voatz, a Boston-based tech startup, the Secretary of Accompaniment of West Virginia has appear up with a band-aid to a accepted problem: acceptance out-of-state aggressive associates to calmly vote in elections.
According to the website for West Virginia’s Secretary of State, registered and able voters that are currently deployed, forth with their spouses and dependents, will be able to calmly vote in the accessible primary election, which will be captivated on the 8th of May. They will be able to do so with their accordant Apple or Android adaptable device.
The action was launched on the 23rd of March and is accessible to the abovementioned voters who are registered to vote in Harrison County and Monongalia County. It is additionally accessible to cadre who abatement beneath the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA).
Secretary of State, Mac Warner, explained why there was a charge to acquisition a band-aid to this voting problem, saying:
According to The Hill, Voatz managed to accession over $2 actor in allotment for the project. By application blockchain technology, anniversary election casting is encrypted and deeply transmitted. This blazon of cellophane and calmly absolute technology is a audible advance from a desktop affairs launched in 2010 with a agnate aim.
Warner went on to say:
Scott Warner, who is the son of Mac Warner and currently confined in Italy, gave acknowledgment afterwards he activated the blockchain-based app, stating:
Based on the success of this initiative, the accompaniment of West Virginia could aggrandize it to awning all 55 counties in the accompaniment for the November elections.
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