How "Blockchain tech." voting could prevent breach and cheat election in the Philippines.
From a traditional ballot voting to automated voting in the Philippines, it created many controversials: miscounting, fraud, vulnerable to hackers and manipulation of voting counts. There was a government database breach before the election 2016. After the election, former senator bongbong marcos complained about the alleged cheat during the election.
All of this issues can be solved and made possible by using "Decentralized Blockchain Technology" without any intervention by the government, especially in a third world country where cyber security is not a priority because of a high cost:
Security- that means it is immune from hacking and you can vote without exposing your confidential information publicly with a trustless voting system. And it's verifiable through any kind of mining.
Tamper Proof- with decentralized encrypted signature for voting a candidate, that means it cannot changed by any party and without worrying about fraud and multiple accounts.
Immutable- No excessive votes, it can be only one vote after a voter casted the vote to a certain candidate.
Transparency- by using blockchain technology it can be audited in a high degree level. Since it is decentralized the information will be stored in every voters account and can be monitored to any voters.
Scalability- By using advanced mining it can efficiently received votes in a matter of seconds.
By using 2.0 Internet we can have a trustless society, were everyone will enjoy the benefit of the technology with a cheaper, resilient, secure and reliable Blockchain technology.
WHAT DO YOU THINK GUYS? :)
Blockchain tech for election?
Actually this is my first time to know about this. Does someone already tried this?
Yes and it's surprising that the one who adopt this tech. is in the south Africa, and also Australia is still testing this tech. :)
Has there been talk of them using blockchain tech, or it this something that you’re proposing?
I've heard that Australia is already testing blockchain tech. for their incoming election, I just wanted to refresh it to the Filipino people, because they are quite conservative when it comes to tech. :)
It was my first time to read about this blockchain tech for election. Filipinos should be open about it. But I do not think the country is ready for it as of this time. I mean, with the automated elections alone, many are still in doubt as to its accuracy. The "null votes" should be counted as claimed by the runner in the previous VP election.
Now as regards this new tech of blockchain, it is a welcome thought to yes, finally have a secure and transparent election. Hoping it will catch the attention of the politicians sooner rather than later. And the people be open about it.
I'm glad you learned new things yadah, and it's only a matter of time the government will embrace this tech. ;)
Right, right. Now, we have to wait and see for this tech to happen.
I like the concept about if it is used as votung purpose ..being transparent to everyone ...it will be saved and can be seen from anyone ....it wud have great significance...
This decentralized system is trying to make this world a beautiful and self governing thing..it is really great concept....it is taking the whole world to the new level....level of perfection...
@owaisbhat41 , yes u r right! :)
True! Blockchain actually will help but do you think with our kind of government officials they will approved using blockchain? When one of the controversy is about Vote cheating?
I think it is possible, but i don't think it's gonna happen sooner. :)
The main advantage of blockchain technology is supposed to be that it's more secure, but new technologies are generally hard for people to trust, and this paradox can't really be avoided.
Blockchain is intellegence at its best...sounds good as it would be able to prevent breach in elections...blockchain has countless significances...thankyou for such an informative post...
I think this is a great idea. Cheating has always been connected in Philippines' elections. Implementing Blockchain Technology will result to a clean election.
Blockchain for voting. Mind blowing. This is where the block chain is becoming the new way of politics... Everything will be open. No third party can interfere.
Nice
There are thousand of advantages of blockchains but i do not know why large companies are against it..
We should motivate each other and work for the betterment of it