What is the purpose of voting in Moscow by adopting the Ethereum blockchain technology?

On February 24th, Beijing time, Moscow will launch a voting system based on Ethereum. The name of this system is "active citizen". Put the ballot into the blockchain, as long as the password is secure enough, the result will not be controversial.

This is one of the main purposes of the voting system, but in recent ten years, the virtual currency community has been arguing endlessly about the unreliability of the previous system. From the moment I heard about Ethereum and smart protocol, the first way I thought of applying was to vote.

Voting needs to be placed on the blockchain.

In our current society, nothing is more important than completely eliminating corruption in elections. Although the author thinks that elections are a complete waste of time, the reality is that a considerable part of power is distributed and realized through democratic authorized voting.

As a result, the voting system that may be hacked came into being. When writing these words, I can almost imagine the cry of the American Democratic Party. They know that they can't win the national or state elections without using cheating methods such as blocking tickets, picking up and dropping off voters, and illegal immigrants voting many times.

For some time, active voting has been regarded as a database-based system. For the system based on Ethereum, Moscow will begin to allow a few residents to vote on a series of proposals, such as the name of the new subway train and the color of the seats in the new stadium. However, in order to alleviate people's worries about whether to trust the city's voting counting system, a private version of the Ethereum blockchain has also been added to this plan structure.

Andrea Bello seraph, strategy and innovation consultant of the city's chief information office, said, "Of course, sometimes we hear that not all votes are trustworthy. Therefore, we decided to use the blockchain of the active citizen project as a platform for building electronic trust. "

The system based on Ethereum will allow people to check the results of open source. Since it was released in February last year, more than 100 node operators have downloaded these results.

People concerned are also worried about whether the system can accommodate and clear enough transactions within a reasonable time. Therefore, the best way is to test the system by holding elections on some trivial issues.

However, there is no doubt that this message is clear. Russia is moving towards a transparent and democratic system. The election of these small problems is only a test of adopting this technology on a larger scale in the future.

The first real milestone should be local elections, and the ultimate goal is national elections.

At a time when people's trust in government agencies in western countries is declining at an alarming rate, the Russian government under Putin is taking measures to strengthen people's trust in its system.

Russia's democratic system has a long history, but the corruption legacy left by the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the plunder of the western world during Yeltsin's administration are still a big problem.

Russia's launch of this system coincides with the time when "US Special Prosecutor Mueller formally filed a lawsuit against 13 Russians and three Russian entities, interfering in the 20 16 US presidential election, causing a global sensation". For anti-democratic forces, this incident makes Mill look more like a useful fool.

While Washington's powerful people are still dissatisfied and complaining about the election results they don't like, Russia is taking action to ensure that one of Joseph Stalin's most frequently quoted aphorisms-"The voter decides everything, and the vote counter decides everything" does not apply to Russia.