The head of Russia’s Central Election Commission will try to sell Vladimir Putin on the idea of a blockchain-based voting system for future presidential elections.
Ella Pamfilova, the head of the Central Election Commission of Russia, reportedly[1] said that she plans to approach President Vladimir Putin about the possibility of conducting Russia's next presidential election on a blockchain. She hopes that the new voting system will be adopted in time for the country's 2024 election.
In a March 27 radio appearance, Pamfilova related that she would "discuss this issue with the president," adding that the Russian public desires such a platform. "We have refurbished everything we could before the latest election, but now as the election is over we have to act preemptively. I want to make a system that has no analogue, a system based on blockchain."
Russia's most recent presidential election was held on March 18, with the incumbent Putin taking nearly 77 percent[2] of the vote.
According to the elections official, the blockchain voting platform would be hack-resistant, convenient to use, and "guaranteed against rigging from any side whatsoever."
Earlier this month, it was announced that exit poll data[3] from the presidential contest was to be recorded onto a blockchain by the state-run All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center, better known by its acronym VTSIOM.
If Pamfilova's platform is successfully developed, it is projected that it will also play a central role in a program called "Digital VTSIOM."
In late 2017, the government of Moscow revealed plans to migrate[4] its Active Citizen voting system, which allows Muscovites to "influence city management decisions and its urban transformation," onto an Ethereum-based platform.
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