South Korea is set to start testing blockchain for voting system

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the South Korean government is back at looking into a blockchain-based online voting system. They previously ran pilot programs in 2018 through various ministries to explore this idea. A politician commented on those 2018 tests, saying that using blockchain for verifying voters and storing voting results would greatly boost both transparency and security compared to traditional online voting methods. He also noted that the pilots were meant to see if the blockchain voting system could work well, not for actual widespread elections at that time. After the pilot programs wrapped up, things went quiet until just recently. Officials are worried about low turnout for the general elections on April 15, and that’s where blockchain could step in as a secure and efficient option according to experts. On another note, K-vote, an online voting platform created by the Korean national committee, has been in use since 2013 for elections in the private sector. It’s particularly popular for political party votes, selecting candidates for university president, and for elections involving apartment tenants. As for the chances of using this blockchain tech in parliamentary and presidential elections, another government rep mentioned that...

I love to see this happen, here in our country we spend millions of dollars for our automated election, we hire a company to do this for us if South Korea can create one, people from democratic company can pattern the algo and create one of their own, we need to end fraudulent voting and we have a way to stop this through blockchain.

If it is going to be a great improvement in the voting system, unfortunately in my country there is debate, which leads to fraudulent voting like every year, but I know that with blockchains all this will end, now it only remains for the idea to expand every year in each country