Japanese agency Layer X can be partnering with a digital id utility known as xID to construct a blockchain-based voting system within the Japanese metropolis of Kaga.

In a Thursday announcement from LayerX, the Tokyo-based firm stated it will likely be developing the digital voting mission in an effort to advertise protected and safe elections for town of 68,000 inhabitants. The agency acknowledged that the associated fee and stability of present digital voting methods within the area wanted to be addressed.

“Voting over the Web presents extra challenges, comparable to stopping double voting, technical hurdles to maintain ballots secret, and the price of voting units,” acknowledged the corporate announcement. “LayerX researched and developed an digital voting protocol that balances the transparency of the voting course of and the confidentiality of voting information.”

In keeping with the agency, the xID utility will strengthen the corporate’s present voting system by serving to confirm a voter’s id and making certain just one poll is issued per individual. LayerX’s system will reportedly permit voters to examine their very own voting outcomes, in addition to present the cryptographic potential to independently confirm that the recording and aggregation processes for a specific vote was carried out appropriately on the blockchain community.

Officers in Kaga had been the primary in Japan to declare the realm a “blockchain metropolis.” The initiative was reportedly supposed to deal with the nation’s inhabitants decline in rural areas by encouraging companies in private and non-private sectors to make use of revolutionary know-how. LayerX additionally made an analogous announcement in November when it acknowledged it might be a part of Tsukuba Metropolis’s “good metropolis” initiative.