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- Romania innovates with digital voting
- Real-time transparency in elections
Romania has been incorporating blockchain technology into its electoral system to increase transparency and security in the voting process. The Romanian Permanent Electoral Authority (ROAP) has adopted this technology to validate and count votes in the November 24 presidential election. This move reflects an ongoing effort to modernize the country’s electoral infrastructure.
Ovidiu Damian, a Romanian blockchain developer at Pi Squared, highlighted the importance of this technology in the Romanian electoral landscape. “Romania is casually using blockchain technology to ensure the integrity of elections,” Damian commented, highlighting the news in a morning post on X, and humorously added that “it’s probably nothing.”
Romania elections casually using blockchain technology to ensure integrityhttps://t.co/ad6IlsnLNV
probably nothing 👀
— Ovidiu Damian (@Ovcd27) November 24, 2024
This initiative allows the global public to track electoral transactions in real time through a dashboard on the official ROAP website. As of this writing, 83.859 blocks of votes have been recorded, each cryptographically validated and added to the blockchain.
Blockchain infrastructure will also be crucial in the upcoming parliamentary, local and European elections, scheduled for June 9, 2024. Developed in collaboration between the Special Telecommunications Service (STS) and several public and academic entities, this technology complements the Computerized System for Monitoring Voter Attendance and Preventing Illegal Voting (SIMPV) and the Computerized System for Centralizing Minutes (SICPV).
For the first time, digital fingerprints of electoral data will be anchored on the European Blockchain Service Infrastructure (EBSI), a distributed network comprising nodes in 27 European Union states. This implementation not only strengthens data security but also increases trust in the Romanian electoral process by ensuring greater traceability.
Within the blockchain infrastructure, each data set collected by the SIMPV and SICPV systems is converted into a transaction containing public information and a hash of private data. These transactions are grouped into blocks every five seconds, including details such as the hash of the previous block, a timestamp, the number of transactions, the validator signature, and references to the distributed infrastructure. This decentralization is ensured by the diversity of nodes maintained by authorities and academic organizations, which also broadcast the blocks to the European EBSI infrastructure in real time.
The associated application allows users to securely verify transactions and blocks, promoting complete visibility into the electoral process.
