The Russian Practical Shooting Federation held an online vote to assess the quality of competitions on the Waves Enterprise blockchain platform

2021: Conducting online voting based on the Waves Enterprise blockchain platform service

The Russian Practical Shooting Federation (FPSR) held an online vote to assess the quality of the competitions held on the basis of the Waves Enterprise service. This was announced on September 15, 2021 by Waves Enterprise.

More than a thousand participants used the electronic voting system chosen by the FPSR to evaluate sports grounds-venues for sports competitions, such as the Russian Championships and the Russian Cup finals. This number of users leads to the fact that according to the results of the vote, the most proactive participants turn to the organizers, requesting full reporting in confirmation of an honest and transparent voting process.

Voting tools such as Google Forms or Survey Monkey cannot respond to such requests - the device of these systems is hidden from the eyes of users and cannot be completely trusted. The logical solution will be to use more transparent services for online voting based on cryptographic algorithms and technology, blockchain noted in Waves Enterprise.

One of these projects is the WE.Vote service based on the Waves Enterprise blockchain platform. The Waves Enterprise solution, in addition to a decentralized blockchain infrastructure, also uses cryptographic technologies such as homomorphic encryption, confidential computing protocol, and zero-disclosure evidence that comprehensively ensures anonymization and enforcement of voting secrecy.

On the blockchain, you can look at the entire data history and make sure that the voting is correct - that is, the Waves Enterprise system excludes cases of fraud, which makes it the optimal tool for implementing the principles of direct democracy. In addition, together with the team, we constantly conduct load testing, conduct penetration testing, and all of them show that the system is capable of withstanding huge loads, - said Waves Enterprise Product Director Artem Kalikhov.

The WE.Vote service uses blockchain at all stages of voting, not just to record final results. The distributed architecture and the absence of a single point of failure ensure that information remains constant and transparent for any participant in the process. That is, according to the results of each vote, its participants can receive full reporting, which means making sure that everything was carried out honestly. At the same time, due to the use of cryptographic algorithms, the confidentiality of the choice of participants is not violated. That is why a service was chosen on the basis of the Waves Enterprise blockchain platform, whose technologies are used to conduct large-scale remote electronic voting of state authorities in different regions of Russia.

We were looking for a service that gives full transparency to all participants and thereby removes all questions based on the results of our remote voting. First we tried the blockchain service of another developer, but faced the fact that with each vote we had to contact this developer to obtain the necessary quota for the number of participants. It was inconvenient and greatly delayed all related processes, so we began to look for alternatives and settled on WE.Vote, "said Artem Rozhkov, chief of staff of the All-Russian Sports Public Organization" Russian Practical Shooting Federation. "

In the future, it is planned to use the WE.Vote service for important votes on key issues related to the work of the federation - with subsequent reporting to the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation. The possibility of holding an all-Russian conference using WE.Vote is also being considered, which became very relevant during the pandemic, when all spheres of life went online.

We are interested in further voting of the "Russian Practical Shooting Federation" using blockchain. This technology takes online voting to the next level, provides the full transparency of work necessary for any serious processes. I assume that the popularity of such services will grow as they become more and more convenient for users, "said Artem Rozhkov, chief of staff of the Russian Practical Shooting Federation.