In Moscow, online voting on constitutional amendments will be held on the blockchain

In Moscow, voting on amendments to the Constitution on June 25 will take place on the blockchain. According to the Moscow government,technology will ensure the security and transparency of the vote.

According to the official website of the Moscow mayor, fromToday, city residents can apply to participate in electronic voting on amendments to the Constitution, which will take place on June 25. Security and transparency of voting will be ensured by blockchain. According to the Moscow government, blockchain guarantees decentralization and the impossibility of changing information in electronic ballots.

The statement said that the system is based onthere is no single server in the blockchain - to change the information in the newsletters, you need to obtain the approval of the majority of network participants, this protects the blockchain from hacking. The votes are anonymized and encrypted, and two keys are used for encryption. One of them is with the user, and the other is divided into several parts and stored by different network participants until the end of the vote.

Amendment electronic votingThe constitution for residents of Moscow starts at 10:00 on June 25 on a separate site. You can authorize on the site using the mos.ru or gosuslugi.ru account. Voting will last five days and will end at 20:00 on June 30.

Let us remind you that in mid-MayThe State Duma approved a bill on conducting remote electronic voting at the federal level. Deputy Anton Gorelkin proposed using blockchain for the voting system.

At the same time, in recent months in the United States there have been discussionsvoting problems on the blockchain. In February, MIT researchers discovered vulnerabilities in the voting app Voatz, and a little later, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) said that blockchain would not help solve security problems in online voting.

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