South Korean Ministry of Science and ICT, and the National Election Commission (NEC) announced its plans to develop a blockchain voting system, according to the report of local news media outlet ZDnet.
It is expected that the trials of blockchain-based online voting system will start next month in the private sector. The system will apply blockchain in voter authentication and result saving, which will increase transparency and security.
It was also stated that the NEC previously ran an online voting system, dubbed K-voting, back in 2013, which has since been used by 5.64 million people but trust in the voting system remains low due to hacking and fraud concerns.
The system will be used in surveys conducted by Seoul National University's Blockchain Society and Korea Internet & Security Agency, the country's internet content watchdog, starting next month.
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