Ethereum, poisoned

Here’s Meduza on the experimental “electronic voting” at the Moscow city election:

…[O]fficials have assembled something even more obfuscated than traditional voting… [O]nline observers effectively will have no way of knowing if electronic votes have been counted properly. In essence, the Mayor’s Office can claim whatever Internet voting results it likes, and neither voters nor observers will be able to prove otherwise.

The system’s architects designed three means of controlling for the correct counting of votes, but all three were ultimately abandoned…

Here’s another piece on Moscow’s blockchain voting project, with a link to the Russian version of Meduza‘s article. Note that all these pieces were published before last Sunday’s election. As expected, the “electronic vote” yielded dodgy results, raising suspicion of vote rigging.

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