I'm still not buying it. Everything that involves Russia + blockchain to me seems very dubious. Just remember those people behind the country, I don't think they're willing to give up power.
And just imagine blockchain technology is immutable, so it's going to be very difficult to manipulate the result so I doubt that they will really take advantage of the technology specially in elections.
Yeah, I am pretty sure that Russia is not interested in fair and transparent elections. If it does implement blockchain, though, it's a win for Russia and a potential loss for other countries that might go for opposing cryptos for political reasons. Anyway, I am a native Russian speaker, so let's check the news. The vast majority of websites that wrote something in Russian about this are related to cryptocurrencies (so are not official news portals). The article raises more questions than it answers. But the important thing is that blockchain will be used for
primany election (choosing leaders
inside of the party)! So the party just wants to know for real whom people see as their leaders inside of the party. Kinda reminds me of the Soviet Union 'elections' between the candidates, all of whom are communists
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How do they guarantee votes to be anonymous?
I don't think they do. According to an
article (in Russian) about it, only those who have verified accounts on the portal of public services will be able to vote with blockchain. They probably won't share the personal data of voters publicly, but I am pretty sure they'll know who voted for whom.
The article says the reason for this is prevention of double voting.