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„The impact of blockchain technology on the trustworthiness of online voting systems”-„elections and trust“
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Online Voting evidently increases election turnouts. However, recent state-owned initiatives have failed due to security concerns and a lack of trust in the systems. Blockchain seems to be a very suitable technical solution to establish transparency in online voting and thus, create trust. We have built our own, blockchain-enabled voting platform and utilized it to run an A/B-testing experiment at a university election to investigate its effect. Our results show that students trusted the blockchain-based voting version less than the control version. However, literature and our focus group findings revealed that there is an interrelation between the distrust among the students and a low level of familiarity with blockchain technology. Hence, we conclude that people should be educated before being confronted with blockchain-enabled online voting to take advantage of the technology’s potential.
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Blockchain Online voting Trust Transparency