As a country we may want to consider the use of blockchain technologies in our elections. This technology, which mushroomed from the now secure Bitcoin boom, uses millions of decentralised nodes and has end-to-end verification and encryption advantage.
Blockchain technology could provide a platform for creating a highly secure, decentralised, anonymised, yet auditable chain of record, used presently in cryptocurrency systems.
Each ID by a voter will only be attributed to one vote; no fakes can be created, the matter of skipping 27 constituencies in tallying and the consequent tampering is impossible.
Participants will only need to use decision tokens to cast their votes from a mobile phone or PC, which are then logged into an immutable blockchain and used to reliably verify the outcome of the election that can be viewed in real-time by everyone who cares.
Chebukati could therefore simply announce what is already known, visible and acceptable to all; it's a money saver too – costing Sh27 per voter as opposed to the current exorbitant Sh2,500 per voter.
