A startup relying on online currency technology to try to make elections more transparent is seeking millions of dollars in crowdfunding to significantly boost the size of its team and obtain the talent needed to make the platform more attractive to potential users.

Follow My Vote, which launched nearly two years ago out of the former Blacksburg work space NuSpark, is in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign asking for $3.2 million. With less than a month left in the campaign, the effort has so far raised about $5,300 from 63 backers.

FMV founder and CEO Adam Ernest has spent the past several weeks aggressively marketing the campaign, using tools such as email and social media to try to advertise the effort.

The article goes on to describe blockchain technology which is the underlying tech that allows Follow My Vote to build secure and transparent voting software. Ranaivo also included details about cryptocurrencies, which share the use of the blockchain.

Learn all about Blockchain Technology!

Why Should You Back Our Kickstarter?

Because voting should be honest. If an election is not honest why even bother?

All over the country, voting machines are being decertified and serious issues are being exposed. Just last year, Virginia decertified all of the WinVote voting machines as they were shown to be easily hack-able. These systems were used across three Presidential Elections!

For a voting system to be honest, it must be verifiable from end to end. Otherwise what the results indicate could be fabricated and total fiction. You have no idea.

In addition to making voting provably honest and secure we can also bring voting right to your iPhone, Android, tablet, or computer.

Help us bring voting into the modern age and make it provably honest!

Read the entire article in the Roanoke Times.

About the author: Will Long is the Marketing Manager of Follow My Vote.

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Watch us literally launch the campaign in this video:

Join our movement on social media with the hashtags #WeAreTheFuture and #HonestElections.

Follow My Vote is solving the current voting crisis with innovative technologies. A voting platform that can gain transparency into elections, without compromising voter privacy will ensure that election results are accurate. Follow My Vote is accomplishing this by using blockchain technology and elliptic curve cryptography to build an open-source platform that is secure and truly verifiable from end to end.

The funds raised from the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign will go towards completion of the project and demonstrating the power of blockchain voting to the world.

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About the author: Will Long is the Marketing Manager of Follow My Vote.

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Follow My Vote is a new start-up working hard to build a mobile app to empower “We the People” of the United States of America to hold our elected officials accountable. We’d like to be able to give away this application for free, but we’re going to need to raise some start-up money in order to make this a possibility, which is why we recently launched a crowdfunding campaign.

There is only 7 days left for us to raise funds through our crowdfunding campaign, which ends at midnight (PST) on November 14th. At this point, we have raised 12% percent of our goal. With your help, we’re confident we can raise the remaining 88% in the coming days.

If you are reading this post, please be sure to check out our crowdfunding video below and consider contributing to our cause.

$5 a person (the price of a cup of coffee from Starbucks) is really all we are asking for. If you can afford to contribute more, please do!

On the other hand, if you can’t afford to contribute anything, we completely understand. All we ask is that you share this page with just one of your friends or family members and ask them to do the same.

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!!!

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Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have A Dream’ speech, a speech that changed the world…forever!

To commemorate his historic speech, which took place on August 28th, 1963, thousands of people flocked to Washington D.C. to remember that moment, a sheer act of courage from someone who paid the ultimate price for standing up for what he believed in. Also, President Obama, Clinton, and Carter as well as many other prominent speakers took the podium at the Lincoln Memorial and addressed the crowd. (WATCH: Presidents Obama, Clinton and Carter Speak at the event)

Ahead of this event, TIME Magazine released their ‘I Have A Dream’ Anniversary Issue,’ honoring Martin Luther King Jr. as a ‘Founding Father’ of the United States.

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the rest of the Founding Father of the United States of America, if you are willing and able to contribute to our cause, we are prepared to honor you by posting your name on our website as an honorary “Founding Father” of Follow My Vote!

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