Denver To Use Smartphone Blockchain-Based App For Municipal Elections

Denver, Colorado, as one of the highest populated cities in the United States, will officially use a blockchain-based smartphone app for the next municipal elections that will happen in May this year according to the PR Newswire reports that we are reading more about in our crypto news below.

According to the reports, the County of Denver will implement a mobile voting platform that is blockchain based that will mainly target the ‘’active-duty military, their eligible dependents and overseas voters’’ who can simply use their smartphones to vote in the Denver municipal elections. The reports explain:

 “Eligible voters will be able to participate in the upcoming election by opting in to vote electronically on their smartphones. Voters will fill out an absentee ballot request, complete their authentication with the […] application, and submit their ballot for the election.”

To make this possible, the City and County of Denver partnered with Voatz, a mobile voting platform, the technical provider Tusk Philanthropies and the National Cybersecurity Center. In 2018, Voatz was one of the first platforms that made mobile voting possible in the primary elections in West Virginia. The same platform by Voatz was used for the federal election ballots also in West Virginia in 2018 in November which provided secure facial recognition software that made sure that each voter matched their government-issued ID.

Most recently, other major cities are hoping to use blockchain for building platforms that can make voting more transparent, secure and faster including Moscow in Russia, Seoul in South Korea and many more.