In the Saratov region of 40 thousand voters invited 110 specially equipped polling stations where using a blockchain platform Polys created in the business incubator of “Kaspersky Lab”, they could vote for new members of the Youth Parliament in the local regional Duma. To vote you how to use the proposed equipment and their own mobile phone.
Elections to 45 constituencies was for 7 hours and then was immediately announced their results. According to media reports, the opportunity was used at least 36% of voters, voted more than 14 thousand people, the organizers said that this largest in the history of the blockchain-election.
Straw poll voters also showed that 83% of respondents would like to participate in the voting with the use of blockchain technology.
We will remind, in October, the Chairman of the Central election Commission of the Russian Federation Ella Pamfilova said that the introduction of technology in Russia, she should change the name because “there is a kind of mental aversion to this name”. However, in her opinion, we need to re-call the polling booths and ballot boxes. Previously, she admitted the possibility that in the 2024 presidential election in Russia may be using the blockchain technology.
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