With the prolongation of the Covid-19 pandemic, the South Korean government once more discussed the blockchain-based online electoral system , after pilot projects were administered in 2018 from different ministries within the Asian country for that end..


"By applying blockchain technology within the process of authenticating voters and storing and verifying voting results, transparency and security are significantly strengthened compared to existing online voting," a politician said of these 2018 trials. of the Korean government. And he added that "at the time it had been done to verify whether the blockchain-based online electoral system can function properly. it had been not intended to be used for external or generalized elections."


When the pilot program ended, the song was on standby and didn't come up again until in the week . Authorities are concerned that the overall elections planned for April 15 are but 20 days away and are bound to have rock bottom turnout in years. it's here that blockchain emerges as a secure and effective alternative for several specialists.


On the opposite hand, the K-vote, a web electoral system developed by the Korean National committee independently, has been actively utilized in private sector elections since 2013. K-Vote is especially utilized in political elections of parties, recommendations for candidates for president of the National University and elections for representatives of apartment tenants.


Regarding the likelihood of implementing this technique in parliamentary and presidential elections, another government official expressed that "The K-Vote, which is widely utilized in the private sector, is difficult to use publicly elections at this point because the people are still concerned about the reliability of the web electoral system . Once a social consensus has been established, a legal basis must be prepared. "


For their part, the us , Russia, Australia, Spain, Estonia, Denmark and Ukraine are already preparing to introduce or implement electronic voting using blockchain.

All of this is taking shape every time due to covid19 and social distancing in countries like the United States at the time there was only an idea of ​​vote-by-mail politicians but it was not accepted and neither was specifically talked about blockchain and what to do . Do you think about this new news, would you like to see a vote with blockchain technology implemented in your country?