On Feb. 27, West Virginia decided towards utilizing blockchain-based platform Voatz for residents with disabilities and residents residing oversea
On Feb. 27, West Virginia decided towards utilizing blockchain-based platform Voatz for residents with disabilities and residents residing overseas to forged their votes within the state’s upcoming main election.
As a substitute, residents will vote utilizing a platform supplied by Democracy Reside. The platform permits voters to both fill out a poll or print and submit it. Democracy Reside and Voatz share entrepreneur Bradley Tusk as an investor.
Democracy Reside is already in use for disabled voters within the state of Washington, and choose counties in California and Ohio.
MIT audit reveals safety considerations relating to Voatz
West Virginia’s determination to ditch Voatz comes following a current safety audit performed by the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how (MIT) that was published on Feb. 13.
The report discovered that “Voatz has vulnerabilities that permit completely different sorts of adversaries to change, cease, or expose a consumer’s vote.” Whereas West Virginia had used Voatz throughout its 2018 midterm elections, no malicious actors have been discovered to have exploited its vulnerabilities.
MIT’s findings have been shared with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company previous to publication. They have been then forwarded to state and native electoral officers who had deliberate to pilot or use Voatz throughout the 2020 election cycle.
“If the general public doesn’t need it, or is skeptical to the purpose they’re not assured within the outcomes, we have now to take that into consideration,” Donald Kersey, normal counsel to West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner acknowledged.
Voting app wreaks havoc in Iowa
Outcomes from the Feb. three Democratic Social gathering Iowa Caucus have been delayed by a number of days following a disastrous experimentation with a smartphone voting platform developed by tech firm Shadow Inc.
The corporate was commissioned lower than two months away from the election. The platform was not completely examined, and volunteers and electoral officers had not been correctly educated in the best way to use it.
Many individuals confronted errors when making an attempt to forged votes on the platform, and information didn’t transmit successfully. The chaos resulted in assist traces being overwhelmed, and the celebration resorted to counting on paper outcomes to find out the election’s end result.