South Korea Ballot Shortage Sparks Debate on Blockchain Voting and Election Trust

The disruption of South Korea’s June 3 local elections—triggered not by cyberattacks or political violence but by something as basic as a shortage of paper ballots—has ignited a wider debate over whether election administration is keeping pace with the country’s technological capabilities and public expectations of trust.

According to South Korea’s National Election Commission (NEC), additional ballot papers had to be dispatched to 67 of the nation’s 14,288 polling stations, and 50 of those locations ultimately used the extra ballots. Voting was temporarily halted at 22 sites. For voters who…  Read more

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