Blockchain Technologies for Electronic Voting: Legal Aspects
The article is devoted to the possibilities of using electronic voting during elections in Russia and other states. The purpose of the study: to identify modern digital technologies that are appropriate to use when conducting elections and how their use can affect election legislation. Research methods: formal-logical (description, comparison, classification, analysis and generalization), comparative legal, historical. Results of the study: (1) the requirements are established that these digital technologies must meet to ensure the objectivity of voting (the universality of the transition to electronic voting; the possibility of multilevel control over the results of voting; the variety of forms of access to the information system of remote voting; personalized registration of votes when it is possible to verify the correctness of their counting; the possibility of proving the incorrectness of counting votes and contesting the results of voting); (2) it is concluded that all these requirements can be realized within the information systems created on the basis of blockchain technology.
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