US presidential election already registered on Ethereum and EOS Blockchain

The entire voting process for the US presidential candidacy is recorded on blockchain networks for posterity. The initiative is from the US news agency Associated Press (AP), which weeks ago closed an alliance with the company Everipedia to take the process forward.

The results of the contest between politicians Biden and Trump are now part of the accounting records of the Ethereum and EOS networks. Since last November 3rd The AP used Everipedia’s OraQle software to upload election data in real time. Currently, the vast majority of votes are already on both blockchains and the end of the count should come soon.

The news agency has stood out in the past for real-time counts for elections, but this 2020 has decided to publish the results not only on its own portal but also on the blockchain. Whenever they receive a call with a state’s total vote count, this information is embedded in the blockchain data at the contract address 0x436ee8cb3a351893b77f8b57c9772daec3a96445.

Users can track address movements via the Etherscan.io browser. Likewise, the company also has its own address in EOS, where they are recording information in real time. Similarly, the AP is known to be recording votes for the senators and the House of Representatives, as reported by CriptoNoticias days ago.

It appears that the AP agency is looking for blockchain networks for a truly immutable public electoral register that cannot be changed. However, it is curious that they have chosen Ethereum and EOS among all those on the market, which have one or the other criticism in their history for alterations in the recorded data. For example, after the DAO attack in 2016, the developers decided to return the stolen money to the victims and ignore the hacker attack. To do this, they made a fork that canceled the transactions made on the network to some extent, to continue working as if the event had never occurred. In this way, the immutability of Ethereum has been called into question. In EOS it was lower than that for the accounting of the network to be changed.

The current elections in the United States are among the most controversial in its recent history, as the dispute over the presidential office was surrounded by controversy, protests and intense electoral competition. Although it is not yet known who will be the next president of the United States, Donald Trump’s electoral group has already suggested that they will ask for a recount of the votes and the candidate even hinted at the possibility of electoral fraud.

In light of these events, it is interesting that the vote count by state is recorded on the Ethereum blockchain, as it could become a test that validates how the vote went this week. As political tension builds, the cryptocurrency community continues to wait for who will be the winner of the election, to find out how this new presidential term could affect the price of Bitcoin and the laws that fall on the cryptocurrency market.