New York could soon explore blockchain technology as a potential safeguard for its electoral process, following the introduction of a new bill in the state legislature.
The Clyde Vanel assembly (D-33) tabled the Assembly A7716 bill on Tuesday, aimed at initiating a formal study on how blockchain could be used to protect data from voters and elections.
The legislation orders the New York State Elections Council to examine the efficiency of the blockchain to ensure the integrity of the elections and publish a report within one year.
New York Bill calls the blockchain an “uncon censored truth” for election safety
The bill defines blockchain as a decentralized system, cryptographically secure, immutable and true capable of preserving an “uncon censored truth”.
It emphasizes the collaboration between the Elections Council and the Information Technology Services Office, with the comments of experts in blockchain, cybersecurity and electoral systems.
Currently under examination by the Committee for the Elections Law of the Assembly, the bill has not yet faced a complete legislative vote.
If he is progressing, he should go by both the assembly and the Senate before going to the governor’s office for final approval.
If it is promulgated, the Council of Elections would be legally required to present its results within 12 months, including examples of the way other states and jurisdictions have implemented similar technologies.
This is not Vanel’s first effort to introduce such a measure. The versions of the bill have circulated in the Legislative Assembly since 2017, but none has progressed in the law.
However, the growing national interest in the requests for the public sector of the blockchain could give a new momentum of the proposal.
Elsewhere in the country, UTAH recently adopted HB230, a bill designed to protect blockchain -related activities, although it has removed the provisions that would have enabled Bitcoin’s investment in the state level.
The legislation always guarantees protections for digital payments, portfolios and node operations.
At the federal level, attention to the blockchain intensified following the executive decree of former president Donald Trump in March to create a Bitcoin strategic reserve.
41 Bitcoin reserve invoices emerge in 23 states
The adoption of Bitcoin also found the momentum across the United States
According to data from the Bitcoin law, 47 Bitcoin reserve invoices were introduced in 26 states, 41 currently active.
Most recently, the governor of Kentucky Andy Beshear officially signed Bill 701 of the Chamber, known as the “Bitcoin Rights” bill, in the law – making the state one of the last people to promulgate legislation protecting users and operations of digital assets.
Other states make similar movements. The Oklahoma Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Act (HB 1203), presented by representative Cody Maynard, recently adopted the Chamber with a vote of 77-15 and awaits a Senate decision.
According to Bitcoin Laws, Oklahoma is now classified alongside Texas in second place in the race to establish Bitcoin reserves at the level of the state.
The Missouri is also in the mixture, with its special committee on intergovernmental cases examining its own Bitcoin reserve proposal.
Similarly, two key Bitcoin in Arizona invoices erased the Chamber’s Rules Committee on March 24.
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