Security risks can persist in the internet and blockchain-based voting systems, a study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found.
Blockchain-based voting systems were believed to be a relatively safer tool for conducting elections, immune to the risks associated with other methods
The MIT paper is titled “Going from Bad to Worse: From Internet Voting to Blockchain Voting”.
Security risks can persist in the internet and blockchain-based voting systems, a study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found.
In a time when manipulation of election results continues to make the news, with speculations about the interference of foreign countries in elections, booth capturing and tampering of electronic voting machines (EVMs), blockchain-based voting systems were believed to be a relatively safer tool for conducting elections, immune to the risks associated with other methods.
The MIT paper is titled, “Going from Bad to…