On April 30th, Follow My Vote proudly sponsored the 2016 Blacksburg Fork and Cork. The local food, wine, and art festival is a favorite for both Blacksburg residents and Virginia Tech students. The festival is put on by The Blacksburg Partnership, a local non-profit organization that helps promote and bring visitors to the area. The Partnership […]
We have compiled the Indiana primary results. The biggest news out of the Indiana primary is the campaign suspension of Ted Cruz. Republican Party Donald J. Trump acquired 53.3% of the Republican votes in the primary, leading to 51 more delegates. Even after Cruz made a deal to keep John Kasich from campaigning in Indiana. Now that […]
Follow My Vote attended Collision Conference this year in New Orleans over April 26-28. The tech conference provides startups with the ability to network, meet investors, and debut their products and apps. Follow My Vote was admitted to the Alpha Program. This program allowed us to exhibit and tell attendees about our blockchain voting software and explain […]
Follow My Vote will attend Collision over April 26-28, 2016. Collision has been called “America’s fastest growing tech conference” and was created by the team behind Web Summit, Which Follow My Vote attended in 2015. Alpha Program Follow My Vote has been accepted to the Alpha Program at Collision! This program is for early stage […]
Multiple outlets are reporting instances of election fraud in the New York primary. The Democratic Party’s primary on Tuesday appeared that it would be a tough contest between Clinton and Sanders. However, some Bernie supporters throughout the state reported that they could not vote for him. Bernie Sanders criticized the voting process of the New […]
The Roanoke Blacksburg Technology Council (RBTC) is a non-profit, member-driven association of businesses and organizations in Southwest Virginia working together to promote the growth of the region’s technology sector. Each Year the RBTC hosts and annual celebration of the communities’ flourishing tech sector called TechNite. The event is a key opportunity to network with upwards of […]
On Saturday, April 16th, We had the privilege of joining Mark Tapp and Keith Weltens on their AM Hodge Podge Radio Show. This was the 2nd time we have been invited on their show, which airs each Saturday morning in the New River Valley at 9 am on 710 AM WFNR. On this episode we sat down […]
The candidates headed east this week for the New York primaries, where a large number of delegates were at stake for both parties. Since Trump and Clinton reside in New York, both were heavily favored to win the New York primaries by big margins on Tuesday. Both candidates did just that last night, and will look […]
On April 13 2016, Follow My Vote launched an epic crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. We are developing verifiable open-source blockchain voting software, making voting honest and convenient, once and for all. Help us prove demand for our technology by donating to Follow My Vote’s Kickstarter Crowdfunding Campaign today! Watch us literally launch the campaign in this video: […]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Millennial generation (18-34) has grown to surpass the Baby Boomers (51-69). Often revered as one of the greatest American generations, Baby Boomers accounted for 74.9 million of the American population in 2015. Millennials were projected to reach 75.3 million in 2015 and will peak in 2036. “The Millennial generation continues to grow as young […]
Once again, Follow My Vote has been featured in the news! We are excited to announce that the Huffington Post has featured Follow My Vote in an article about blockchain technology. Huffington Post writer, Pradeep Aradhya wrote a fantastic and informative article in the business section on April 1st, 2016. The article covered the blockchain and some […]
Last night’s Wisconsin primary was important to both Republican and Democratic candidates for similar reasons. Cruz desperately needed a resounding win to slow the momentum of Trump. Similarly, Sanders needed a win to show that Clinton should not be thought of as the presumptive Democratic nominee. Wisconsin showed that both Cruz and Sanders are still […]
Over the past two weeks, there have been articles, petitions, and general outcry about Arizona voter suppression in the state’s primary. In Arizona’s most populous county, the number of polling precincts was reduced from 200 to 60 this year. This resulted in voters having to spend hours waiting to cast their vote. Consider: 2012 primary had 300,000 […]
The first nationally televised Libertarian debate will be hosted tonight on FOX Business Network at 9 PM. Candidates will include Gary Johnson, Austin Petersen, and John McAfee. The debate was pre-recorded and moderated by FOX Business contributor John Stossel. Follow My Vote’s CEO, Adam Ernest, recently met with Gary Johnson at the International Students for […]
The Global Entrepreneurship Challenge is an annual event hosted by Virginia Tech KnowledgeWorks. Student entrepreneurs are given a chance to pitch their business ideas to a panel of local business leaders and a crowd. The Follow My Vote team is always eager to attend entrepreneurship events in our area. We seek to support local efforts that […]
It appears that San Francisco is ready for a voting upgrade. A recent op-ed in the San Francisco Examiner implores the city to move to an end-to-end verifiable voting system. The authors express concern about purchasing another expensive and private contract for outdated voting machines. We have a proposal: Follow My Vote! “San Francisco is […]
Both parties headed West on Tuesday with the Republican party using blockchain voting in Utah. This was one of the first times that online voting has been allowed via a state party. With around 59,000 people, CryptoCoinNews reported that Utah Republicans signed up in numbers. It would indeed seem like a momentous day for any and all advocates that wish […]
In a recent interview on NPR, Nate Silver, the founder of FiveThirtyEight, discussed if polls are still reliable in 2016. FiveThirtyEight is named after the number of votes in the electoral college and specializes in analyzing polls. Silver goes into detail on many areas of polling and discusses the bandwagon effect, herding, accuracy and the 2016 presidential […]
Five important states were up for grabs last night, as Clinton and Trump continue to pull away in the 2016 race for the White House. Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Illinois, and Missouri represent key geographical regions of the country. Clinton and Trump showed again their broad appeal to large sections of the country by winning […]
The future of encryption could seemingly be hanging in the balance in the FBI v. Apple saga. In short, the FBI wants Apple to unlock the iPhone of one of the deceased San Bernardino terrorist suspects, because they believe there may be useful information about the man’s history inside of the iPhone. Apple has refused to […]