Recently we learned that Switzerland’s pilot e-voting system was hacked, but all is not lost for advocates of more experimentation with e-voting and blockchain voting technology. From a great article at the Modern Consensus by Leo Jakobson:

Suvorov points out that Luxoft’s blockchain-based e-Vote system is only half of the technology tested in the Zug pilot, which also relied on a mobile voting app built on an Ethereum-based digital ID platform built by uPort, a ConsenSys company. “The goal [was] to understand how end-to-end technology—e-ID and blockchain—would work in a realistic setting,” he says. The Swiss Post system also incorporates a secure digital ID system.

“An e-voting system is a complex software solution and each of its components has to be properly verified,” Suvorov told Modern Consensus. “The only way to achieve progress and ensure e-voting on the blockchain or any other public services system will be secure is to make the systems openly available, drive adoption via controlled pilots, and encourage peer review.”

Read the full article here.