Zug, Switzerland, To Pilot Blockchain-Based Voting Pilot
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Zug, a city in Switzerland and a proactive supporter of blockchain technology will soon be launching the first voting pilot to base both its residents' identities and polling system. The system will be operated by blockchain technology.

This pilot for e-voting is expected to be launched any day between 25th June and 1st July. It was developed with a view to making the city more compliant with blockchain technology-based applications. A digital identity trial is currently running, according to an announcement made by the local government recently.

In July last year, Zug authorities announced their plans to launch uPort, an application that’s Ethereum-based for digitizing information pertaining to the identities of the city’s local residents. In November 2017, the pilot phase was started with over 200 residents signing up for this new service.

Benefits of uPort

Once Zug citizens have been allotted their digital identities, they will have the liberty of casting their votes in this one-off blockchain pilot for polling. Local authorities indicated that the exercise is more of a "consultative test" and its results shall not be enforceable or binding.

Blockchain Marches On

In November 2017, Nasdaq had announced that it was in the process of developing a fully electronic system for shareholder voting for the capital markets of South Africa.

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