The blockchain-based voting system that the Japanese city of Tsukuba recently trialled appeared to run smoothly, but it will nevertheless take time until such tools get wider acceptance, news outlet The Japan Times reported on Sunday quoting Tsukuba mayor and an expert in the field.
As part of its plan to deploy blockchain technology in voting procedures by the end of 2018, Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, launched a pilot at the end of August, in which locals had the opportunity to vote for different social projects. Entitled to take part in the poll were holders of the so-called My Number cards (digital social security identifiers) who were not necessarily Tsukuba residents.
“I had thought [the vote] would involve more complicated procedures, but I found that it’s m...
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