Utah
County becomes the third jurisdiction in the United States to offer
blockchain-based mobile voting in their municipal primary election.
Utah County follows West Virginia and Colorado
One
of the 29 counties of the U.S. state of Utah, Utah County will enable
eligible voters to participate in the upcoming municipal primary
election through a special application on their smartphones, according
to an official press release on July 23.
As such, the state of Utah has become the third state to allow blockchain-powered electronic voting in the country after West Virginia and Colorado.
New blockchain-powered voting pilot continues till Election Day, August 13
The
new e-voting pilot is made in collaboration between the Utah County
Elections Division, mobile elections platform Voatz, Tusk
Philanthropies, and the National Cybersecurity Center.
According
to the announcement, voting started on June 28 and continues till
Election Day, August 13. The pilot voters include active-duty military,
their eligible dependents and overseas voters, the report notes.
In March 2019, Denver, the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Colorado, was reported
to become the second U.S. jurisdiction to pilot a blockchain-powered
mobile voting platform in its upcoming municipal election. The
announcement came almost one year after the first initiative of this
kind in the U.S. — the launch of mobile voting solution in West Virginia primaries and then midterm elections in March 2018.
Recently, Overstock’s blockchain subsidiary Medici Ventures led a $7 million funding round in Voatz platform.
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