Yesterday, Russia’s blockchain-based voting system faced a hiccup shortly after it went live in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod. The web portal for the remote voting on constitutional amendments crashed due to peak load, Central Election Commission member Anton Lopatin told RIA Novosti.
Earlier this month, Ledger Insights reported on Russia’s use of blockchain to enable citizens to vote on waving he two-term restriction on presidential appointments. The country’s Supreme Court is also exploring blockchain for a remote plenary session with a separate solution.
The mayor of Moscow’s official site shows that the remote voting solution for the constitutional changes was developed by the Moscow Department of Information Technologies using the Exonum enterprise blockchain platform from Bitfury. The online voting system opened on June 25 and will close on June 30, with offline voting on July 1.
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