No one was surprised when Vladimir Putin again was announced the winner with 88% of the votes.
It is now live on the newRussia2024app.
It’s free, every week, in your inbox.
Fear of surveillance also makes it highly unlikely that voting and polling results are representative of actual sentiments.
Dissent in Russia is growing more risky and public opinion harder to track, said Russia2024s originator Mark Feygin.
It is critical that we provide reliable, surveillance-proof avenues for protest and polling.
Russia2024 and its underlying technology has enabled that.
RariLabs Rarimo division built Freedom Tool to help give people living under authoritarian rule a voice.
It is open source and license-free, available for anyone to download.
Using the app, voters scan their biometric passports with their phones, proving citizenship and eligibility.
They then receive an anonymous voting pass for polls and protest elections.
The app thenpublishes votes directly onto the blockchain where they are tamper-proof.
A judge subsequently slapped them with two-year prison sentences for hooliganism.
I know, because I was there.
The feeling was that finally, this could be it enough was enough.
Alas, as we have come to see, it was not to be.
If this is what someone wants to use blockchain for, I say mine away.
Story byLinnea Ahlgren
Linnea is the senior editor at TNW, having joined in April 2023.
Dabbles in gaming and fitness wearables.
But first, coffee.
