Blockchain-aided voting trials to begin in India

Trials of blockchain-aided voting in India which would enable voters to post ballots from outside their home provinces are to begin soon. Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said that research using the cutting edge technology had already started and that mock trials were to be launched in the very near future, as reported by The Wire. India’s Election Commission worked alongside researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in creating a secure way to verify identities and enable voting from far-flung regions of the country, and beyond. On the same…