{"id":30423,"date":"2020-10-21T10:48:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T07:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=30423"},"modified":"2025-08-27T22:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:13:37","slug":"kyrgyz-authorities-discuss-blockchain-based-voting-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/kyrgyz-authorities-discuss-blockchain-based-voting-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgyz authorities discuss blockchain-based voting system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acting president and prime minister of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov proposed implementing a blockchain-based system for holding votes. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/program\/talk-to-al-jazeera\/2020\/10\/20\/sadyr-japarov-kyrgyzstan-needs-to-change-political-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> in an interview with Al Jazeera.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In his view, distributed ledger technology could ensure fair elections in the country.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe have had three revolutions because of unfair elections. If this continues, unrest and revolutions will continue. From now on, everything will be fair,\u201d Japarov explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The acting president has already held consultations with the Central Election Commission. Specialists would need three to six months to create a blockchain system.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis would help restore public trust in the democratic process,\u201d the head of state added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier in October, after elections in Bishkek, mass protests by supporters of parties that failed to win seats in parliament occurred. When the rally was being dispersed, clashes with security forces began, protesters stormed the parliament building and the presidential administration of Kyrgyzstan.<\/p>\n<p>Against the backdrop of ongoing mass protests in the country, the National Bank of Kyrgyzstan <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/kyrgyzstan-halts-banking-operations-and-disables-swift\">recommended<\/a> commercial banks and non-bank financial institutions to suspend operations. The SWIFT cross-border payments system was also disabled.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news stream, <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>Acting president and prime minister of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov proposed implementing a blockchain-based system for conducting votes. He told Al Jazeera in an interview.<\/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":[25,141,785],"class_list":["post-30423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain","tag-kyrgyzstan","tag-voting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30423","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=30423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30424,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30423\/revisions\/30424"}],"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=30423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}