LayerX will develop blockchain-based voting system utilizing digital ID verification in Japan

Japanese agency Layer X shall be partnering with a digital identification utility referred to as xID to construct a blockchain-based voting system within the Japanese metropolis of Kaga.

In a Thursday announcement from LayerX, the Tokyo-based firm mentioned it will likely be growing the digital voting venture in an effort to advertise secure and safe elections for the town of 68,000 inhabitants. The agency acknowledged that the fee and stability of present digital voting programs within the area wanted to be addressed.

“Voting over the Web presents extra challenges, reminiscent of stopping double voting, technical hurdles to maintain ballots secret, and the price of voting units,” acknowledged the corporate announcement. “LayerX researched and developed an digital voting protocol that balances the transparency of the voting course of and the confidentiality of voting information.”

Based on the agency, the xID utility will strengthen the corporate’s present voting system by serving to confirm a voter’s identification and making certain just one poll is issued per particular person. LayerX’s system will reportedly enable voters to test their very own voting outcomes, in addition to present the cryptographic means to independently confirm that the recording and aggregation processes for a selected vote was carried out accurately on the blockchain community.

Officers in Kaga had been the primary in Japan to declare the realm a “blockchain metropolis.” The initiative was reportedly supposed to handle the nation’s inhabitants decline in rural areas by encouraging corporations in private and non-private sectors to make use of progressive expertise. LayerX additionally made the same announcement in November when it acknowledged it might be part of Tsukuba Metropolis’s “good metropolis” initiative.