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Senator Kelly Loeffler, formerly CEO of Bakkt and currently a member of the task force to reopen the U.S., sees plummeting approval ratings.
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Election News
An election is a type of formal decision-making process made by a population to choose an individual to hold public office. Elections are a crucial part of a democracy and for building strong governmental institutions. In countries with free and uncompromised elections, candidates need to perform at the top of their capabilities to gain enough votes to take the position they want or to stay in the position that that have already been holding for another term. However, elections results are often compromised by political powers that are in charge during the election. Current state of technology provides an opportunity to eliminate risks of malicious intervention into the voting process by performing elections using blockchain. Blockchain technology elections will record all the votes into a public blockchain with no possibility to change them afterwards.
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Internet voting may have security vulnerabilities, but blockchain can still provide much-needed transparency for online systems.
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The Center for Scientific Evidence in Public Issues penned an open letter urging officials not to utilize blockchain for U.S. elections.
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Decentralized by its nature, blockchain technology could help to build a democratic society, at least by transparent elections and trusted voitings.
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Kaspersky unveiled a prototype of a new machine which allows voters to check that their votes have been recorded.
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India’s citizens will soon be able to cast votes from outside their city of registration thanks to a blockchain-based system.
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CEO of Overstock has issued a statement supporting blockchain in voting in response to the technology’s recently published vulnerabilities claims.
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After releasing TRUMP trading last week, crypto exchange FTX plans to launch five more presidential election futures products, including BERNIE.
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Crypto exchange FTX launches TRUMP futures trading, letting users bet on the upcoming U.S. presidential elections.
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Major blockchain voting app Voatz says that the Shadow smartphone app used in the Iowa Democratic caucus is not mobile voting.
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Electronic voting is gaining more trust and becoming more secure and reliable through emerging blockchain technology.
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Virginia’s state legislature looks to study blockchain technology in a bid to protect voter records and election results.
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Two counties in the U.S. state of Oregon will pilot a blockchain-based voting program for select citizens in November.
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A University of Michigan student may have attempted to hack West Virginia’s blockchain voting app as part of a course on election security.
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An American Congressional candidate and challenger to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is accepting donations in cryptocurrency.
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