A secure voting solution combining blockchain and paper ballots

Rage Comment : In order to ensure the openness and transparency of voting activities, everyone should be able to understand the voting process and view historical records. Although the paperless voting process brings convenience to many people, it also brings technical obstacles for many ordinary voters to view historical records. Therefore, Bitcoin ATM developers and blockchain technology company BTC hope to use blockchain technology as an opportunity to combine paper ballots to develop a new voting device VoteWatcher, which will retain the simple and easy-to-understand traditional voting process while ensuring technical advantages, so that more ordinary voters can view voting records.

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Bitcoin ATM developer and blockchain technology company Blockchain Technologies Corp (BTC) has revealed that it is developing a tamper-proof voting device called “VoteWatcher.”

New York-based BTC, a corporate and startup accelerator dedicated to blockchain and Bitcoin, is currently developing a blockchain voting device that it says is tamper-proof.

The device is the "VoteWatcher," and the company says it can safeguard two voting functions.

First, ensure that voting equipment correctly captures the voter’s intent.

Second, maintain the trust of voters and ensure that the votes are counted correctly.

While technological advances have led to paperless polling stations, there are still some critics, and BTC’s tamper-proof voting system plans to bring back paper voting.

The company has this to say about paper voting, which is "the only way to ensure the security and accuracy of elections."

BTC CEO Nick Spanos said:

“What happens if a non-technical person wants to audit an election on a paperless electronic voting device?”

"You can only audit the code that calculates the election results, but you don't have the original voting records. The general public needs paper ballots to count their votes."

The VoteWatcher system is based on paper ballots, which are input through a scanner to record the original voting results. The scanned data is uploaded to the blockchain together with the hash value of the ballot image to ensure that the results cannot be tampered with.

Although the company emphasizes that the Bitcoin blockchain brings "a whole new paradigm of data authenticity," it also believes that paper ballots should ultimately be the document records that need to be referenced for recounting votes.

BTC has relevant experience in providing election solutions and has successfully organized Libertarian Party election activities in New York and Texas, USA.

Earlier reports said the company planned to complete at least one voting program, called VoteUnit, before the 2016 presidential election.