By Ken Schortgen Jr.

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Russia's Vladimir V. Putin is expected to easily win reelection to a fourth term and a term-limited final six years in the presidency, but that isn't the whole story of the federal elections being held Sunday March 18,  2018. As Ken Schortgen Jr. writes below, the Moscow city government is experimenting with an ethereum based blockchain for voting. If the experiment in Moscow is successful, the system could be tested to counter irregularities or voting fraud across the world's largest country. -- JWS 

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While the United States and Europe promote the illusion of voting through their highly suspect Diebold machines, one nation that is often vilified by the West for 'vote rigging' is doing something about it when it comes to transparency.

Local officials announced recently that they have been experimenting with the use of the Ethereum Blockchain in the capital city of Moscow to record, count, and verify votes in a number of different referendums that could one day lead to being the sole arbiter of transparent voting for all elections.

So while the rest of the world remains focused on creating as many cryptocurrencies as possible on the Blockchain, innovation on the Distributed Ledger platform by a few countries are finding them working towards using the technology as a remedy to help eliminate corruption, and one day bring about a return to confidence in their political and financial systems.

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