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Votem CEO Rubbishes Latest MIT Research Findings On Blockchain Voting

Pete Martin, the CEO of Votem, a blockchain voting outfit, has rubbished rumors and warnings from researchers, saying they do not have their facts right.

Even though researchers and experts in the blockchain field have warned against the dangers of blockchain voting, the companies have always rubbished their findings while stressing that their findings are still incorrect. A recent report released by MIT researchers in February stated that third parties were able to manipulate the famous blockchain voting app, Voatz.

The report claims that the app unknowingly has a backdoor where ‘adversaries’ could access to alter a user’s vote, stop or expose the votes cast by a particular user. In its reply to the report through its CEO, Voatz claimed that the papers’ findings were not based on actual events.

Martin sees himself as a blockchain and mobile voting revolutionary

Despite the rebuff that the MIT researchers got from Voatz, the researchers still went ahead to release another report based on a broader scale this time. In the released report, the researchers claimed that voting technology has a high probability of a big scale failure. While countering the assertion, the CEO of Votem, Pete Martin, has said that the new report also doesn’t hold up. While speaking at a podcast, the CEO told the podcast host that the MIT report’s researchers are looking at blockchain voting from the real world voting aspect.

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“If you are in the academic field, you are allowed to scrutinize many systems, technologies, and processes across the globe, but eventually, you will realize that we have a world full of people in the real sense,” Martin said.

Going by his Linkedin page, Martin describes himself as a blockchain and mobile voting revolutionary”. Taking a swing at the incorrect facts published in the report, Martin noted that it was concerned about the secrecy in casting votes, the independence of the software that will be used, and the verification of their ballots by users.

Martin tackles various issues raised in the report

Talking about the secrecy in casting votes, Martin stressed that even though no blockchain voting company currently uses the technology to provide security against attacks, he noted that if the technology has enough security measures combined with it, we could witness a very safe blockchain voting system. About verification, Martin said even though the researchers believe that one can only cast votes with a marked paper, blockchain voting has a chain of custody concept where once you have cast your vote in a pull box, you have lost the chain of custody.

Martin also stressed that most of the ballots carried out in elections this year lacked core end to end user verifiability, and blockchain would have easily solved that aspect. After the MIT researchers released their report in 2018, the state government was forced to ditch the Voatz app after being deployed for use in the 2018 midterm elections.

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After the development, Voatz sued MIT to court, claiming that unauthorized research that was carried out on its app was computer fraud. Votem on its own has not been deployed in any real-life election process has it has mainly be used for online voting.


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