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Cardano founder Charles Hoskison explains why University of Wyoming represents a better return on investment for IOHK than Harvard, MIT or Cornell.
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Voting News
Voting is the process of gathering opinions of a mass of people about various questions and the necessity of performing various actions. Voting is an important part of a democracy, crucial to the election process, and for formalizing society’s opinion about various laws, events and processes. The honesty and transparency of voting is a subject for many fields of study and is very important for the protection of the legitimacy of holder of the vote. Voting on blockchain is one of the most promising implementations of technology into the voting process because of blockchains immunity to censorship and protection from being changed after the process. Online voting may implement blockchain to redistribute server functions between many peers and get rid of a central authority. Voting systems are also implemented into blockchains themselves, like in Ethereum, which has voting system for making decisions about the future of the platform.
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The United States Congress is contemplating developing a blockchain-based system to allow remote Senate voting.
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The Voatz platform was reportedly a “success” in the Utah GOP convention despite previous security issues.
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There is an effort underway to roll out a blockchain voting app in time for the November elections.
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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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Block.one has decided to use its stake of almost 10% of the EOS network to vote for block producers, which marks a break in its previous relationship with the blockchain.
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HackerOne has removed blockchain-based voting platform Voatz’s bug bounty program following a number of issues.
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Malta University used a voting Dapp built by students to conduct elections in spite of the coronavirus lockdown.
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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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An audit report of Voatz platform confirms numerous issues previously discovered, and the voting app declines to make all the necessary changes.
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After pioneering the use of blockchain-based voting platform Voatz in 2018, West Virginia has abandoned the app in favor of paper and traditional online voting.
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Computer scientist Ronald Rivest has said that blockchain is not the right technology for voting, although it can find proper application in a number of other areas.
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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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