[ANN] VAST: Votem Presents VAST Token - Voting for a Mobile World

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[deppil90]

Not everyday we could find a good idea like this here,
is looking very experienced that is why I think this is good opportunity
to invest into promising tech it will will be worth for it.

[andilewa]

hello admin... Can I participate in the Indonesian translation for this token ??

[jeffreystern]

Not everyday we could find a good idea like this here,
is looking very experienced that is why I think this is good opportunity
to invest into promising tech it will will be worth for it.

Thank you deppil90 - look forward to your involvement in our community!

[IonFlare]

Should be interesting.

[jeffreystern]

hello admin... Can I participate in the Indonesian translation for this token ??

You can check out our bounty thread for more information on this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2984707.0

[Wasimalik]

Hey guys, urdu thread is now live: https://bitcoingarden.org/forum/index.php?topic=29743.new#new

[unsoindovo]

HI ALL!!!
i think if this project will do some good marketing doing well in a few election contest, could do really good things!!!
meanwhile, you can read italian thread HERE - QUI
or you can download italian WP HERE - QUI

[toyo87]

The project is promising and a future way of easy access to the world of voting.

[toyo87]

Hi Dev, Is there a bounty program ongoing? I would love to promote your project.

[r_victory]

Hi Dev, Is there a bounty program ongoing? I would love to promote your project.

Check it here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2984707.0

[erikstarfish]

Hello devs! Do you have an updated roadmap?

[crypto_gab]

Hello devs! Do you have an updated roadmap?

According to the website, not really. After the end of the presale, next stage is the public sale in 6 months.

Most ICOs, go straight from presale to public sale, why a gap ?

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[CryptoStills]

Votem is listed on CryptoStills

Coming in at a Bronze podium position

• Full project presentation
• Full media linking
• Continuous Twitter news updates
• Moderated discussions

[zerkalisz]

Vote of Confidence: Who Paper Hurts the Most
https://medium.com/votem/vote-of-confidence-who-paper-hurts-the-most-c2e851cc7868

Last week, we explored why the arguments for paper-based voting systems don’t stand up as well as they may seem. As previously stated in this series, paper certainly resolves some of the most pressing issues with today’s outdated voting machines but a regression to exclusively paper ballots will do harm to the voting public our civic infrastructure is designed to serve.

Accessibility: Traditional polling places are an archetypal image in what we associate with our elections. Long lines around the corner, happy voters wearing “I Voted” stickers on their lapel; the image is repeated virtually every election season. This image, however, casts voters of different abilities out completely.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) conducted a study of 178 polling places spread across the United States during the 2016 elections. According to the GAO, ⅔ of the polling places, both for early voting and during election day, had some sort of impediment for voters with disabilities. That number was up from ½ of polling places during the 2008 study. According to the results of the study, published as part Pew’s “Stateline” series, impediments ranged from lack of wheelchair access to a polling place to special machines equipped with earphones and other modifications that weren’t even powered on the day of the election. As sobering as these figures are, things would get worse if there were to be a mass regression towards paper. Traditional paper-based voting systems have little to no accommodations for the visually impaired or hard of hearing. Furthermore, the traditional locales where paper balloting often do not meet minimum requirements for accessibility as determined by the United States Access Board.

[MaydayMayday]

Heard a lot about voting via blockchain, now I see the project that tries to makes it in a real life. I love the idea

[erikstarfish]

Hello devs! Do you have an updated roadmap?

According to the website, not really. After the end of the presale, next stage is the public sale in 6 months.

Most ICOs, go straight from presale to public sale, why a gap ?

Yeah. I think so to. I read the review on cryptorated.com. Is this a commissioned review.

[crypto_gab]

They don't have much data about the project, the team or the tokensale so my guess is NO.

[crypto_gab]

Vote of Confidence: Voting for the Ages
https://medium.com/votem/vote-of-confidence-voting-for-the-ages-d01fd823843a



This past Tuesday, a bill was submitted to the DC Council that would lower the District’s voting age in all elections to 16. If passed, the bill would allow 16 and 17-year-olds to vote in everything from local to federal contests. With Congress having the final say on all legislation passed in DC, the bill will most likely not pass. The bill does, however, raise an important point about enfranchising some of our youngest voters and how mobile voting may be an inevitbalility.

In Takoma Park, MD, a suburb just north of D.C., 16 and 17-year-olds are allowed to vote in local and municipal elections. In 2013, the first year these minors were able to participate, 44% of those registered came out to vote. For a national election, this turnout rate would be paltry, but for this election, which was to elect council members and mayor, only 11% of the rest of the adult population of Takoma Park turned out to vote. The turnout discrepancy demonstrated a desire to participate in local government amongst local youth, one that is considerably larger than most adults.

Webroots Democracy (WB), a British think tank dedicated to mobile voting, recently published a study on the potential success of an online voting program in Scotland. Data in the report demonstrates how the youngest eligible voting block in the U.K., 18–24-year-olds, have a considerably lower turnout in the past five General Elections than the oldest block, those who are 65 years or older. The same study shows data that, for activities like banking and email, the percent of online engagement is nearly the inverse. In the UK’s next general election, the youngest voters will have been born in 2004 and will have spent their entire lives gaining fluency in a newly minted mobile world. According to the British Office of National Statistics, 98% of British individuals ages 16–24 use the internet while on the go.

A Pew Study from 2016 shows the discrepancies in internet use and smartphone ownership on a global scale, and the numbers are no less stark than in the UK. In some of the world’s fastest-growing countries, like Nigeria and India, the difference in smartphone ownership and internet usage between those above and below the age of 34 years.

While none of these statistics are particularly shocking, they do speak to a considerable shift in the standards of communication in our changing world. It also begs the question, how do governments harness youthful enthusiasm for politics in a pragmatic way? We have a nascent generation of adults who are interacting in a way that is completely different from what we were used to 20 years ago.

Mobile voting is a simple, cost-effective solution that would allow a generation already literate in mobile technology to participate in the democratic process without dealing with the ideologically remote logistics of traditional polling places.

If we are to engage the youth vote, the easiest way will be to offer them a method to cast their ballot in a medium with which they are already proficient. The dissonance between our current technological standards and outdated voting methods will have a greater impact on our youth than the current, average voter.

No matter the outcome of DC’s proposed voting bill, its submission should serve as a portent of a new generation of voters who will have vastly different standards than we have today.