Last week, the chief election commissioner of India revealed that the Election Commission is working with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) on a blockchain voting system.
According to a report by local news outlet The Times of India, about a third of eligible voters did not exercise their right to vote in the 2019 elections. Many of them were unable to vote as they migrated away from where they are registered as voters. This is the issue of ‘Lost Votes’, and the Election Commission (EC) has been exploring various ways to tackle it.
India’s chief election commissioner Sunil Arora at a Times conference said the blockchain system would allow voters registered in any part of the country to cast their votes, irrespective of their current address. Arora said that the EC has proposed linking voter IDs with Aadhaar, according to an INC42. Aadhar, the citizen identity database, if connected to voter IDs, should allow better verification of individuals and enable a remote secure voting mechanism.
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