Blockchain voting project wins Kaspersky Lab award, receives $10,000

Rage Review : Recently, the cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab organized a competition, and the blockchain voting project won the first prize and received a bonus of $10,000. The project was completed by a team from New York University in the United States. It is called "Votebook", which is a system that connects voting machines to a private blockchain operated by the local election department, allowing voters to self-check whether their votes have been counted.

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A blockchain voting project has netted $10,000 in a recent contest organized by cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab.

The planned system, called "Votebook," connects voting machines to a private blockchain run by local election departments. According to the New York University team, the Votebook concept will allow voters to check whether their votes have been counted.

As the project’s team explained on The Economist’s website:

“Votebook not only meets all the requirements for a voting system to be accepted by the public, but also has the practicality to not disappoint voters. We can and need to effectively use blockchain technology to serve today’s democracy.”

The idea of ​​backing up election records on a blockchain has long been proposed as a potential use case, first highlighted in a speech by Delaware judge J Travis Laster. Even the local government in Moscow is testing possible applications to enable blockchain-based voting.

A research paper published in October by a think tank for the European Parliament also explored the concept, with its current proposal being that the bitcoin blockchain should be used for this purpose by bundling votes and transactions on the network.