Romania is the initial EU country to practice a voting press device that is grounded on Blockchain technology for national elections. 

For the first time in Romania, the current national parliamentary elections, which were held in November, used Blockchain technology with the main drive to guarantee the truthfulness of the electoral method and to support its transparency. The government intended to certify tamper-proof and real-time data on voters’ occurrence. 

There is still a method to go for the voters to be authorized to manage record, count, and check the votes themselves by permitting them to hold a copy of the voting record. On the other hand, the perspectives of development, the expansion of a tech-enabled community agreement, and of defending the democratic values have been specified. 

The innovation of using Blockchain technology in Romanian elections 

Blockchain technology has been implemented in numerous industries, where a chain of belief was required for the flow of facts, whereby any change carried to such flow was planned to be visible and marked. Elections evidenced to be a field where such technology would be of the highest use in order to signal and avoid fraud, illegal voting, or numerous voting by the identical person or in more than one place.

The leading value-added resides in the point that it noticeably does not permit any alteration or amendment of the data verified up to a certain moment, even by their administrators. It functions similarly in other industries — it calculates exclusive and unrepeatable data imprints, which are updated every five seconds. Any possible change in the information produces a new imprint, which further makes the particular change visible. 

In terms of red tape in Romania, the Blockchain also facilitated reporting post elections: The supervision of the minutes arranged in each voting section, which additionally resulted in lower costs with human resources and other devices.