Kaspersky – banned for use in US government – releases prototype of blockchain voting machine

Last week, Kaspersky’s Polys project unveiled the prototype of its blockchain-based Polys Voting Machine. The device will work alongside the Polys online election system. This is the same Kaspersky that produces antivirus software. In September 2017, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ordered federal agencies to remove Kaspersky products from their computers. In 2017, Kaspersky launched Polys, the Ethereum based online voting system. The platform allows ballot verification and vote tallies to be performed in a decentralized manner. Polys consists of a web-based application for creating and holding polls and an app for voting. Kaspersky plans to make the Polys protocol code open source soon.