Blockchain may introduce new problems to voting system: Study

San Francisco: While current election systems are far from perfect, security risks can persist in Internet- and blockchain-based voting systems, says a study by researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

The paper titled “Going from Bad to Worse: From Internet Voting to Blockchain Voting,” comes at a time when news reports of possible foreign interference in elections, of unauthorised voting, of voter disenfranchisement, and of technological failures have called into question the integrity of elections worldwide.