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University of Malta Students Develop and Use Blockchain Voting Application

Sharing is caring!Master students in Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies at the University of Malta have designed, built, and used decentralised blockchain app developed to vote for their student representatives. According to the Times of Malta: “At this time especially, given the current situation, it was important to have a remote voting

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Cybersecurity Company Kaspersky Debuts Blockchain-Based Voting Machine

Blockchain voting is gaining more traction in the United States despite the abysmal failure of mobile voting at the Iowa Democratic Caucus earlier this month. Companies on the forefront of blockchain technology realize the potential of the products they are developing to not only transform the global economy, but

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After MIT Find Vulnerabilities, Medici Ventures Defends Blockchain Voting App Voatz

Jonathan Johnson, CEO of Overstock and president of Medici Ventures, has issued a statement supporting blockchain in voting in response to the technology’s vulnerabilities claims published on Feb. 13.Emerging technologies got in the crosshairs of regulators when a mobile software application that had been devised to help calculate the

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Two Oregon Counties to Enable Blockchain-Powered Mobile Voting

Jackson and Umatilla Counties from the state of Oregon become the latest to join the fleet to incorporate mobile-based voting powered by blockchain technology and will launch the mobile voting pilot in November.Tusk Philanthropies (TP), an entity that works with state legislative campaigns to advance mobile voting and anti-hunger programs

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Blockchain Voting is Vulnerable to Hacking and Low-Quality Data: Research

Nir Kshetri, a professor of management at the University of North Carolina, has suggested that before blockchain-based voting can be considered safe and trustworthy, some major issues must be resolved.In an article published on Oct. 18, Kshetri claims that “small-scale tests run so far have identified problems and vulnerabilities

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Two More US Jurisdictions Launch Blockchain-Based Mobile Voting

Two state counties in the United States are implementing blockchain-based mobile voting in the special elections in November.On Oct. 18, the nonprofit Tusk Philanthropies announced its partnership with Jackson and Umatilla Counties in Oregon to pilot the mobile elections platform Voatz. The pilot offers eligible voters to cast their

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