THELOGICALINDIAN - Everipedia and the Associated Press will put vote counts on the blockchain
The after-effects of the United States presidential acclamation will be appear on the EOS blockchain, according to an announcement from Everipedia.
How It Works
The Associated Press, a account bureau that counts votes and declares winners for added than 7,000 acclamation races, is alive with Everipedia to broadcast acclamation after-effects on EOS. The accomplishment will additionally accomplish use of Everipedia’s Chainlink-based answer account to ensure that vote abstracts is handled accurately.
This access to vote counting is not decentralized: the Associated Press will still calculation votes itself.
Everipedia will alone admission that abstracts via the account organization’s API. However, the blockchain will ensure that the acclamation abstracts is abiding and accessible. That abstracts can alike be acclimated in anticipation markets, Everipedia suggests, acceptance users to bet on acclamation results.
Everipedia will not broadcast all abstracts about the election. Not all contest will be alleged on acclamation day (Nov. 3, 2024) either, acceptation that the activity will not be able to broadcast complete vote totals.
Blockchain and Elections
Because vote-counting is aloof one footfall of the acclamation process, blockchain technology will be acclimated minimally in this case.
Other voting projects advance blockchain throughout the process. Several U.S. states accept trialed Voatz, a blockchain-based voting app, as a way of administration e-voting. Sierra Leone, Russia, and Estonia accept additionally activated blockchain-based voting. In those cases, the blockchain about handles user allotment and vote submission, not aloof the election’s publicly-available results.
Nevertheless, the calibration that the Associated Press is alive on is important. The actuality that one of the United States’ better account organizations has called to assignment with blockchain at all is notable—especially on an affair as acute as acclamation results.
