At that place is an effort underway to roll out a blockchain voting app in time for November elections.

A voting app is beingness developed by WinterGreen Research and Government Blockchain Clan, or GBA, which uses blockchain applied science to "brand fraud detectable".

COVID-19 volition bulldoze adoption

Susan Eustis, President of WinterGreen Enquiry told Cointelegraph that she expects COVID-xix to accelerate its adoption:

"We anticipate that the digital voting app will roll out apace, just as the telemedicine market was eclipsed by virtual intendance delivery from Cisco WebEx and Zoom. Physicians went from doing 200 televisits per year to 36,000 per calendar week inside the past month. The same market driving forces impact voting every bit touch healthcare delivery."

The implementation of such an app would have to exist approved on a state-by-state basis. Eustis has had conversations with some state-level officials and is optimistic about its adoption in time for the U.South Presidential elections in Nov. WinterGreen Inquiry has also prepared a training class for the election officials. Eustis noted:

"The WinterGreen Research team has prepared to start training election officials at the local level within a couple weeks. Virtual voting is the best of any recommended solutions for social distancing and mitigating the spread of COVID-19."

Co-ordinate to Eustis, they are exploring several private blockchains for their application and the programmer volition be appear shortly. The GBA is working on the blockchain standards for the app, while WinterGreen Research volition be training ballot officials if the app gets adopted.

If the COVID-nineteen pandemic continues to linger in November, the government may exist forced to upgrade the electoral procedure to the standards and expectations of the 21th century.