The service for monitoring blockchain voting in Moscow will be improved, it will be accessible and understandable to anyone who wants to follow the course of the elections. This is with reference to the statement of the head of the department for improving territorial administration and the development of smart projects of the Moscow government Artem Kostyrko informs TASS.
According to the official, after deciphering and publishing the results of remote electronic voting (DEV), observers will be able to independently verify the correctness of the number of votes cast for a particular candidate.
“Tools will allow any citizen of the Russian Federation to become an electronic observer. We will finalize the electronic “safe package” developed by our federal colleagues so that you can not only save a transaction, but do it in any Internet browser and any user,” Kostyrko said.
He argues that expanding the circle of observers at the expense of ordinary citizens will be “an additional guarantee of honesty and transparency of the elections.”
Recall that in September 2021, two different blockchain systems were used in the elections to the State Duma. In Sevastopol, Kursk, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Murmansk and Rostov regions, online voting took place on the basis of a platform developed by Rostelecom together with Waves Enterprise commissioned by the Central Election Commission, in Moscow – on the basis of a platform from the Moscow Department of Information Technology.
In the future, the CEC allowed the transition to a common blockchain platform due to problems with voting in Moscow. In December, the State Duma submitted draft law on uniform rules for conducting a DEG for all regions and in elections at all levels.
