The Russian Central Election Commission won't allow observers to look under the hood of its blockchain voting system, experts say.
Encryption inventor and head of MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative are among authors of a new paper that points out why blockchain and voting are a bad pairing.
Cryptographic techniques, like zk-SNARKs and blockchains, could ensure online voting is secure and private.
The comments come days before a ballot count marred in uncertainty.
There will be two blockchain voting pilots for Russia's off-year election next month.
Whether the USPS intends to experiment with its mail-in voting system was unclear Thursday.
Russians voted electronically, using blockchain tech, to keep Putin in power. Now, hackers may be selling the personal data of over a million of those voters.
The vulnerability allowed users votes in the recent constitutional poll to be decrypted, Russian journalists found.
Moscow's government is giving voters the option of having their ballots recorded on a blockchain despite transparency concerns.
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Ohio lawmakers have proposed the launch of a blockchain voting pilot in spite of security experts' repeated warnings against any internet-based elections system.
Iowa's election mess shows the risks of relying on centralized, digital systems and software that lacks transparency.
If anything, blockchains add meaningful complexity, which means more ways things could go wrong under imperfect, or real-life conditions.
The West Virginia Secretary of State disclosed the attempted hack occurred during the 2018 election cycle.
Ethereum project Aragon is getting ready to vote on whether to expand operations to include blockchain interoperability platform Polkadot.