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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 19:43:28 -0400
West Virginians serving overseas will be the first in the country to cast federal election ballots using a smartphone app, a move designed to make voting in November's election easier for troops living abroad. But election integrity and computer security experts expressed alarm at the prospect of voting by phone, and one went so far as to call it "a horrific idea." ...
Ballots are anonymized, the company says, and recorded on a public digital ledger called blockchain. Although that technology is most often associated with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, it can be used to record all manner of data.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/08/06/technology/mobile-voting-west-virginia-voatz/index.html
Oh, it's blockchain-based. OK, then.
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