Follow My Vote's ambition is to build a secure Online Voting Platform that will allow for greater Election transparency. Using a technological solution that was recently introduced that has the ability to solve both of these critical issues: the lack of transparency in our elections and the lack of security of our election systems.
Adam Kaleb Ernest, Co-Founder & CEO, graduated from Virginia Tech in 2004, with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Marketing Management.
Nathan Hourt, Co-Founder & CTO, has a Master’s of Science Degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, as well as a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Computer Science from Harding University. While attending college, Nathan contributed to research projects in data compression, randomized algorithms, and software obfuscation and reverse engineering. Nathan also collaborated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory on the development of a next-generation computer networking protocol. Nathan has over 5 years of experience developing cross-platform software, running the gamut from kernel - level C to Javascript and GUI. Nathan is an accomplished blockchain architect, owning critical role in the design and development of the Graphene Toolkit for BitShares, a leading crypto-currency that has been credited with several industry innovations. Since then, he has acquired more than 10 years of digital marketing experience, owning a critical role in the development of an internet marketing agency from the ground up.
Blockchain technology already secures billions of dollars around the world. It should secure our votes as well. Using the unparalleled security of blockchain technology, they are poised to disrupt the established voting industry by offering a more cost-effective and technologically superior solution.
Using this advanced technology, they will be able to gain transparency into our elections, without compromising voter privacy, and have a way to mathematically prove that the elections results are accurate. Also, at the voter’s request, there would even be a way to allow a voter to cast their vote online in an election and follow their vote into the ballot box to ensure that their vote was safely and securely stored without being changed or altered in any way.
With the ability to audit the ballot box and watch elections progress in real time, Follow My Vote's platform offers Electoral transparency.
Let’s face it. No one except for Election officials really know what happens to your vote once you cast it, so it’s not surprising that more and more research is showing that citizens don’t vote because they don’t believe their votes count. Understandably, these frustrated voters are losing confidence in our Democratic system.
Enter Follow My Vote’s Online Voting platform. Using a webcam and a Government-issued ID, voters can remotely and securely log in and vote for their desired candidates. After they’ve selected their candidates, they can use their unique Voter ID to quite literally open the ballot box, locate their vote, and check that it is both present and correct. Additionally, voters can then watch the election progress in real time as votes are cast. Follow My Vote’s platform allows for an indecisive voter to return to the system and switch his or her votes at any time before the Election deadline closes.
The ability to change your vote, coupled with the ability to observe the election in real time, has major implications for the current Two-Party system. Now, voters who would like to vote for a Third Party candidate are likely not to or fear of wasting their vote on a candidate who is not likely to win. In some instances, voting for a Third Party draws votes from one of the two dominant parties that has similar views and increases the chances the opposition Party will win. With the ability to change their vote, voters can counteract this vote-splitting effect and shake up the current Two-Party system.
Follow My Vote’s platform offers convenience which will likely improve voter turnout among younger generations and provide troops abroad, the elderly, and the disabled a viable alternative to current voting methods. Democracy can’t function if almost half of citizens aren’t voting; and in this regard Follow My Vote is striving to restore the Democratic tradition.
Another advantage Follow My Vote’s system offers is cost-effectiveness. In the United States, millions of dollars of taxpayer money are spent on line items such as printing ballots and mailing voter information alone. These are unnecessary costs that will be reduced over time by moving voting online, as Follow My Vote plans to do.
Follow My Vote's software comes with the security of blockchain technology and is open-source so that anyone can audit the software’s code.
CLICK HERE for more information about Follow My Vote.
Follow My Vote has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the blockchain technology powered voting platform of the future. The project aims to bring transparency, convenience and security to all kinds of polls and electoral procedures.
CLICK HERE to the Kickstarter page.
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