Polys Voting Machine

2020: Announcement

At the beginning of March, 2020 Kaspersky Lab provided the device for vote and counting of votes which program cornerstone the blockchain system of Polys company is. The new equipment received the name Polys Voting Machine.

The device is intended for polling precincts and focused first of all on not most technically grounded users (for example, elderly people), it is heavy to them to deal with the Internet services.

Kaspersky Lab provided the device for vote and counting of votes which program cornerstone the blockchain system of Polys company is

The device stores information on vote in the decentralized format, and names and their choice does not remain in a blockchain for confidentiality reasons. The bodies holding elections can connect several computers for preserving of these data to reduce the probability of falsification of results.

As we see according to our Polys platform, electronic vote can solve some of these problems, giving more opportunities for remote participation in elections and even increasing an appearance of young voters — the head of department of the products Polys in Kaspersky Lab Roman Aleshkin says. — However, if physical polling precincts were completely closed, it would deprive certain groups of people of an opportunity to participate in elections and to make their voice heard. That is why we provided our new voting machines.

The principle of work of an automatic ballot box is that voters undergo verification then receive the unique QR code or a token, then tokens are scanned. All voices on Polys are automatically ciphered and counted.

Kaspersky Lab notes that the platform combines the distributed registers and technologies of online elections, creating the confirmed communication between the voter and his voice. At the same time the solution Polys allows to vote also in smartphones.^[1]

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