Shri Ravi Shankar Prasadji posted following on
LinkedIn, two days back :
Met Ms. Urve Palo,
the Minister of Entrepreneurship and Information Technology of the Republic of
Estonia in my office today. We discussed ways to deepen the bilateral
relationship between India and Estonia, which are both recognised as IT
superpowers. We have identified cyber-security as an area for closer
cooperation in addition to promoting exchange of students and facilitating our
start-ups.
That elicited 1183 Likes and 44 comments , where I
commented :
Totally support
Devanand in matter of learning from Estonia on how to conduct online elections
And now ,
BLOCKCHAIN technology guarantees transparency . Pl read :
Today , I found further confirmation of possibility of
using BLOCKCHAIN
for elections at :
where, the following paras
are worth reading :
Permissioned block-chains
aren’t quite the same as public block-chains, like those supporting the crypto-currencies
bitcoin. While anyone can validate transactions on a public block-chain, only
authorized persons can validate transactions on a permissioned block-chain.
In the case of the Sierra Leone election, the authorized parties
included people from Agora, the
Red Cross, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and the University
of Freiburg.
However, like a public block-chain,
anyone can view transactions recorded on a permissioned block-chain. That means
that once the groups managing the block-chain verified the Sierra Leone votes,
anyone — voters, candidates, or just interested third parties —
could see the election results.
Agora’s use
of block-chain for the Sierra Leone election isn’t the company’s ultimate
vision for the technology. Eventually, the start-up hopes to eliminate the use
of paper ballots altogether, allowing voters to cast their votes via personal
electronic devices. This will cut down on election costs, increase voter
accessibility, and eliminate a potential avenue for corruption.
Dear Shri Ravi Shankar
Prasadji,
Only in Nov 2017 , you said :
Verified account
I urge you to consider incorporating this Block-Chain Technology in the following Mobile App
proposed by me :
VotesApp [ 18 Aug
2013 ]
This incorporation would be even better ( as far as
transparency is concerned ) than the current method of V-VPAT in EVM !
VotesApp
will ensure that any voter can get to see ( proof ) of who
( which person ) he voted for , in which election (
Municipal or State or National ) and when –
apart from ensuring “ No fake / invalid votes “ !
A complete history of his voting during lifetime – but,
which he alone can access on his mobile through his biometrics !
Now imagine aggregation of the voting behaviour of 800
million voters at gross / macro level and totally anonymized – and accessible to anyone on EC’s web
site !
This could reveal
following types of trends / analytics :
·
No of Votes
·
Percentage of voters
·
Vote share ( party wise )
·
State / Region wise
·
Gender wise
·
Vote swings / Anti Incumbency factors………. Etc
Such BIG DATA analytics might even make it possible to “
predict “ the future voting patterns !
With incorporation of Block-Chain ( into VotesApp
) , opposition will be left with no arguments to oppose SIMULTANEOUS ELECTIONS
!
12 March 2018
www.hemenparekh.in
/ blogs
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