In the following video, Follow My Vote Co-founder and CEO Adam Ernest explains his raison d’être. This is his reason and calling for innovating in the elections industry. It all goes back to the George Bush vs Al Gore Election of 2000, which was an extremely controversial election. Ernest’s father was a government contractor and […]
Years ago, Follow My Vote set out to build a cryptographically secure, end-to-end user-verifiable online election system. We eventually realized that while blockchain technology provides an excellent foundation for the back end of such a system, our current technologies are simply not adequate to support the full extent that is necessary to bring such a […]
In the run up to the 2016 United States Presidential Election, Follow My Vote brought global attention to the idea of leveraging blockchain technology (or distributed ledger technology) to build a secure end-to-end verifiable mobile voting system to be used in government-sponsored elections worldwide. Over the past few years we’ve been contacted by media outlets, […]
Follow My Vote’s blockchain voting software has been highlighted in a recent video and post on futurethinkers.org covering the top 19 industries the blockchain will disrupt. “Future Thinkers is a podcast about the future of humankind and the exploration of consciousness.” Follow My Vote is featured in the number 10 spot in the industry list alongside Democracy Earth. […]
Follow My Vote Vote Co-Founder & CEO, Adam Ernest recently spoke on an episode of the Predicting Our Future Podcast. The episode covered how current voter participation is extremely low and presented online voting as a possible solution. Podcast host, Andrew Weinreich invited several guests to talk about online voting and what it could look like in […]
News has surfaced from a NSA report detailing a cyber-attack on a voting software supplier and phishing emails sent to government officials prior to the US election. The document from the NSA was provided anonymously and has been independently authenticated. The document reportedly states: “Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate actors … executed cyber espionage […]
Follow My Vote is making history by becoming the first company to develop blockchain voting software and integrate it with the BitShares blockchain! Back in August of 2016, we announced that we had completed the initial alpha version of our stake-weighted voting software. Now, we’re letting the world know that we’ve successfully integrated our stake-weighted […]
Reports of more voter fraud are surfacing from Indiana. It seems a number of counties have been included in an investigation that began with a police raid on the offices of the Indiana Voter Registration Project. Is it just us or does it feel like more and more stories are coming out about voter fraud? We […]
According to a news station out of Harrisonburg, Virginia, college students are committing voter fraud. A James Madison University student is the focus of a new voter fraud investigation. The student has registered deceased people to vote. The Student, who has yet to be named worked for HarrisonburgVOTES, a local organization that aspires to raise […]
Follow My Vote Ambassador, Nicolas Guillermo recently wrote a an article on wearechange.org entitled “How We Can Stop All Voter Fraud”. The article goes into depth on the issues Follow My Vote is tackling and the technology we are using to combat voter fraud. Each time there is an election held anywhere in the democratic […]
Follow My Vote is a startup based in the corporate research center in Blacksburg, VA that is developing blockchain-based voting software. They recently released the initial alpha version of the software, giving early-adopters a preview of how their software works. Adam Ernest, their CEO, was interviewed by WSLS 10 about the software: “You can monitor […]
We just learned today, August 29th, that hackers have breached the databases of not one, but two state board of election systems. This breaking news comes from a FBI “flash” alert that was given to state boards earlier this month and just emerged into the eyes of the public. Follow My Vote has secured a copy of the […]
The United States Voting Method is flawed, and I doubt anyone would argue otherwise. With unsecured voting systems in place in many states, we don’t even have technology to redeem us. It is simply unacceptable that in our day and age that we have to choose what many would call the lesser of two evils. The […]
We are excited to announce that we have released the Initial Alpha for the Follow My Vote stakeweighted blockchain voting software! The alpha version runs on a blockchain using the open-source Graphene Blockchain Framework. Follow My Vote on GitHub Features and functionality that can be explored in the alpha release include publishing of contests, casting votes, and tallying […]
Politicon 2016 was an incredible event! Follow My Vote attended as an exhibitor, while CEO, Adam Ernest, spoke on a panel regarding rigged elections. The non-partisan political conference took place in Pasadena, California, over June 25 and 26. Many well known politicians, tv hosts, and political thought leaders attended. Some of the most notable were Gov. […]
In an interview with Joe Mohen, the former CEO of election.com, Amber Phillips of the Washington Post tried to breakdown why online voting hasn’t been a reality. In an age where you can order food online in the comfort of your bed, the technology to vote already exists. Many critics of such technology say it is […]
With 42% of precincts in, CNN has just reported that Hillary Clinton won the DC Primary with a huge majority of the vote. At this rate, Hillary Clinton will net at least 14 or 15 delegates, with a margin so wide that she would have won by a larger margin than any Bernie Sanders win except in […]
As I continued to scan the article I thought to myself, “Our current voting system is broken.”Stuck between paper ballots and other outdated voting systems America’s election infrastructure is lagging behind. Outdated voting machines, complex state laws that have made ID verification difficult, and accusations of voter fraud are not unique to the California primary. […]
With Hillary Clinton being declared the presumptive nominee, voter turnout is expected to be low for the DC Primary. Going 57th in the primary order means that often times the nominee has already been decided, but that’s nothing new to Tuesday’s set of voters. They’re used to getting the short end of the stick. DC […]
Our latest press feature comes from a nationwide news show! Follow My Vote was featured on NewsWatch Television on the Discovery Channel on Friday, June 10th, from 7:00-7:30 AM ET/PT. Each edition of NewsWatch reaches more than 96 million households nationwide. The episode was listed in cable guides as the ” Dads and Grads Tech Special’. […]