Blockchain Voting: Russian government will use the ledger

Today Moscow government revealed its plan to study the blockchain voting system.

According to Gazeta.ru, deputy Andrey Belozerov explained that the Department of Information Technologies (DIT) of Moscow is studying how to apply the distributed ledger to various use cases, including blockchain voting to avoid frauds.

Moscow government could incorporate the blockchain into Active Citizen, an application for e-government that aims at getting Russian citizens more active in local decisions.

One of the greatest Russian Sberbank could also be involved in this project.

Russia and Digital Currencies

Russian government previously tried to pose a ban on cryptocurrencies, but this position changed as major financial institutions expressed their own interest in exploring the blockchain and digital currencies.

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