{"id":28895,"date":"2020-09-18T17:34:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T14:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=28895"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:55:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T10:55:40","slug":"media-moscows-blockchain-voting-system-published-distorted-data-for-about-16-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/media-moscows-blockchain-voting-system-published-distorted-data-for-about-16-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Moscow’s blockchain voting system published distorted data for about 16 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

The surveillance system monitoring the progress of electronic voting in Moscow’s municipal elections malfunctioned. As a result, for about 16 hours, extracts from the blockchain system were published with distorted data, according to <\/span>Open Media<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the downloaded reports on the course of the vote, journalists found \u201cdozens of anomalous records.\u201d Such extracts are produced every half-hour.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Errors in the reports began to appear on the night of September 11 and appeared in every extract until 17:00 on September 12, a few hours before the end of voting \u2014 thus, about half of all files that were supposed to reflect the ‘blockchain snapshot’ contained errors and missing votes,” the newspaper notes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Viktor Tolstoguzov, head of the Department of Electronic Voting Systems at Bauman Moscow State Technical University, said that part of the data in the extracts was missing. Later, some extracts changed in size, and the published intermediate files disappeared, he noted.<\/span><\/p>\n

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