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“# Can blockchain technology<\/a> make online voting reliable? <\/strong>”
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The United States Presidential elections on Nov. 3 were contentious to begin with, but accusations of electoral fraud from the defeated President Trump cast a pall over the whole procedure. Daniel Hardman, chief architect and chief information security officer at self-sovereign identity solution Evernym, thinks blockchain might help voting in general<\/a> going forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cBasically, blockchain can provide a way for voters to be reliably and securely registered to vote, and then when votes are cast, blockchain can be a mechanism for proving that somebody has the right to vote, based on their prior registration,\u201d Hardman told Cointelegraph. \u201cBlockchain can provide some features that would help with auditing a vote in an election,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

Republicans have been hesitant<\/a> to accept a Biden win, despite the electoral college verifying the results earlier in December. Rationale ranged from accusations of faulty or manipulated voting machines to allegations of falsified ballots app<\/a>earing en masse at critical voting sites.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe recent stuff that we\u2019ve seen with election challenges in Pennsylvania and Arizona and so forth \u2014 there are certain features of blockchain that would have made it possible to do more robust auditing,\u201d Hardman said. \u201cYou\u2019d basically be able to lay to rest any concerns about tampering and things like that.\u201d <\/p>\n

With public blockchains, such as Bitcoin\u2019s (BTC) for example, every transaction is recorded on an immutable public ledger, making audits more foolproof and transparent than centralized or paper-based processes. Applying such technology to voting could achieve similar results for votes. <\/p>\n

Although the model appears transparent and unchangeable, how would authorities know if votes came from citizens who only voted one time? \u201cWhat you want is what\u2019s called end-to-end verification,\u201d Hardman explained. \u201cOn the one side, the front side of it is the registration part,\u201d he said, adding:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need to know that a person can only register one time and that means that when somebody comes in to register you do the things that you would do in a physical election mechanism today, which is \u2014 you check the driver\u2019s license, you see if their picture matches, their signature matches, all that kind of stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, under the hood, the technology ensures each person only a single vote. \u201cOn the backend, you prove that for any given registration, you can cast exactly one vote,\u201d Hardman said. <\/p>\n

Over the past few years, blockchain has gained popularity for its usefulness in a number of mainstream processes, such as supply chain activities. <\/p>\n