{"id":27452,"date":"2020-08-19T14:04:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T11:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=27452"},"modified":"2025-08-26T20:53:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T17:53:42","slug":"blockchain-based-voting-system-from-rostelecom-and-waves-enterprise-to-be-deployed-for-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/blockchain-based-voting-system-from-rostelecom-and-waves-enterprise-to-be-deployed-for-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain-based voting system from Rostelecom and Waves Enterprise to be deployed for elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Rostelecom, in collaboration with Waves Enterprise, developed a remote electronic voting system based on blockchain. ForkLog was told this by representatives of Waves Enterprise.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The order to create the system was issued by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation (CEC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The system is designed to provide <\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">secure access, reliability of information processing, confidentiality, and oversight of the voting procedure by all authorised participants, including independent observers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The decision underwent technological testing in early August. Public testing is planned for the end of the month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">As reported earlier, the remote electronic voting technology is being used in by-elections for State Duma deputies in Kursk and Yaroslavl oblasts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Remote voting will take place during the early voting period on 11-12 September, as well as on election day itself, 13 September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The system will not be a full replacement for traditional voting; it is an additional way of expressing the vote, emphasised by the chair of the CEC, Ella Pamfilova.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">As previously reported, blockchain technology was used in the vote on amendments to the Russian Constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Back then, the system experienced several malfunctions, and later in the dark net <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/passports-of-blockchain-vote-participants-in-russia-put-up-for-sale-on-the-dark-web\">appeared<\/a> a database of 1.1 million passports of participants in blockchain voting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rostelecom, together with Waves Enterprise, developed a remote electronic voting system based on blockchain, according to Waves Enterprise representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,1890,785,290],"class_list":["post-27452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain","tag-rostelecom","tag-voting","tag-waves"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27453,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27452\/revisions\/27453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}