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 Why Online Voting

Follow My Vote's ambition is to build a secure online voting platform that will
allow for greater election transparency.

Since the dawn of democracy, elections throughout the world have been plagued with accusations of
illegitimacy (https://followmyvote.com/top-5-reasons-why-the-world-needs-our-voting-platform/). As
democratic societies across the globe are beginning to adopt technology to improve the ef ciency of the
election process, many people are discovering that certain types of technology can be extremely vulnerable
(http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/15/virginia-hacking-voting-machines-security), which may
have the potential to unfairly in uence the outcome of elections.

Only those that are on the forefront of technological advancement realize today what the majority of people
will become aware of tomorrow, which is that there was a technological solution
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_chain_(database)) that was recently introduced to mankind that has the
ability to solve both of these critical issues: the lack of transparency in our elections and the lack of security of
our election systems.

Using this advanced technology we will be able to gain transparency into our elections, without compromising
voter privacy, and have a way to mathematically prove that the elections results are accurate
(https://followmyvote.com/cryptographically-secure-voting/).  Also, at the voter’s request, there would even
be a way to allow a voter to cast their vote online in an election and follow their vote into the ballot box to
ensure that their vote was safely and securely stored without being changed or altered in any way.

Typically, when cutting edge technology is introduced to the masses, there is an increased nancial burden
placed on early adopters whom are willing to pay the higher cost in order to take advantage of the additional
bene ts the new technology provides. Contrary to this trend, this particular technology could actually
drastically reduce the costs of our elections (https://followmyvote.com/the-cost-of-elections/) and free up
taxpayer money to be spent on other extremely important aspects of our society, such as improving the
quality of our education systems or rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure.

What Is Follow My Vote?

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 Increasing voter turnout would also be a likely byproduct of bringing elections securely online. The
reality is that, in the past, many companies have tried to host elections online but have failed only
due to the technological approach
(http://voices.washingtonpost.com/debonis/2010/10/hacker_in ltration_ends_dc_on.html) they
decided to take and not because it can’t be done. If we can overcome the misconception that online
voting cannot be done safely and securely, we could encourage a whole new wave of voters to
conveniently cast their vote online from anywhere in the world.

Why? Why introduce a new voting system that could cut costs, increase voter turnout, make voting
more convenient and accessible, ensure elections are honest, and reassure voters that their voice
was heard by their government?

Because we can. Because we now have the technology to make all this possible. All we need from
you is your support to make this a reality.

Will you join us (https://followmyvote.com/support-us/)?  

"It is enough that the people know there was an election.

The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The
people who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph
Stalin

What
With the ability to audit the ballot box and watch elections progress in real time,
Follow My Vote's platform offers unparalleled electoral transparency.

Let’s face it. No one except for election of cials really know what happens to your vote once you cast it, so it’s
not surprising that more and more research is showing that citizens don’t vote because they don’t believe
their votes count. Understandably, these frustrated voters are losing con dence in our democratic system.

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Enter Follow My Vote’s online voting platform. Using a webcam and a government-issued ID, voters can
remotely and securely log in and vote for their desired candidates. After they’ve selected their candidates,
they can use their unique Voter ID to quite literally open the ballot box, locate their vote, and check that it is
both present and correct. Additionally, voters can then watch the election progress in real time as votes are
cast. What’s more, Follow My Vote’s platform allows for an indecisive voter to return to the system and switch
his or her votes at any time before the election deadline closes.  

The ability to change your vote, coupled with the ability to observe the election in real time, has major
implications for the current two-party system. Now, voters who would like to vote for a third party candidate
are likely not to for fear of wasting their vote on a candidate who is not likely to win. In some instances, voting
for a third party draws votes from one of the two dominant parties that has similar views and increases the
chances the opposition party will win. With the ability to change their vote, voters can counteract this vote-
splitting effect and shake up the current two-party system.  

Follow My Vote’s platform offers convenience which will likely improve voter turnout among younger
generations and provide troops abroad, the elderly, and the disabled a viable alternative to current voting
methods. Democracy can’t function if almost half of citizens aren’t voting (http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-
tank/2015/05/06/u-s-voter-turnout-trails-most-developed-countries/); (http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-
tank/2015/05/06/u-s-voter-turnout-trails-most-developed-countries/) and in this regard Follow My Vote is
striving to restore the democratic tradition.  

Another advantage Follow My Vote’s system offers is cost-effectiveness. In the United States, millions of
dollars of taxpayer money are spent on line items such as printing ballots and mailing voter information alone.
These are unnecessary costs that will be reduced over time by moving voting online, as Follow My Vote plans
to do.  

Follow My Vote's software comes with the security of blockchain technology and is open-source so that
anyone can audit the software’s code.  Keep reading to learn more about blockchain technology and why we
believe that decentralization is the key to secure online voting.  

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 Open-Source

 Our software is open-source (https://followmyvote.com/online-voting-platform-bene ts/open-source-

code/), so anyone can audit the code.

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 100% Secure

Blockchain technology (https://followmyvote.com/online-voting-technology/blockchain-technology/) ensures

that the ballot box cannot be hacked.

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 Cost-Effective

The U.S. needlessly spends millions of dollars on ballots (https://followmyvote.com/the-cost-of-elections/)

each year.

Convenient

Vote from any device - no need to wait in long poll lines.

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Vote Software
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Will People Know How I Voted?

We provide a cryptographically secure voting process to ensure that each voter 
is issued the correct ballot without their identity being tied to their vote.

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 How
Blockchain technology already secures billions of dollars around the world.  We
believe it should secure our votes as well.  Using the unparalleled security of
blockchain technology, we are poised to disrupt the established voting industry by
offering a more cost-effective and technologically superior solution.  

Blockchain technology was rst developed in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto.  Since its release, it has been used as
the basis for thousands of cryptocurrencies around the world, including Bitcoin and BitShares.  It has also
achieved recognition worldwide as the most secure of the available online database management
technologies. By incorporating the security of the Blockchain into our voting system’s design, Follow My Vote
has quickly become an industry trailblazer.  

Blockchain technology is decentralized data storage that holds a public ledger of transactions.  The ledger can
record many transactions: monetary transactions, property transfer, and even ballot storage.  All transactions
that occur on a standard Blockchain are veri ed and signed with cryptography to ensure security and
anonymity.  Follow My Vote's system further improves security by using elliptic curve cryptography.  Simply
put, cryptography provides security and privacy while the public ledger adds transparency and accountability.
 

Decentralization is one of the most important attributes of blockchain technology. A decentralized system
provides Follow My Vote with the appropriate security protocols necessary for large-scale elections.
Illustrated above, a traditional processing network has one point of centralization. This is the point a hacker
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would attack to corrupt a system. In a decentralized system there is no single point of weakness. This creates a
system that is extremely low risk of being compromised.

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You can contribute code to our project today! 

Learn More! (https://followmyvote.com/code-contributors/)

Follow My Vote Advisors

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Fox_(computer_programmer))

Brian J. Fox
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Fox_(computer_programmer))
American computer programmer, entrepreneur, consultant, author, free software advocate, and original
author of the GNU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU) Bash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_(Unix_shell))
shell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system_shell)

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Mike Flint (https://www.linkedin.com/in/flintmike)

Accomplished business executive and entrepreneur with 30+ years experience leading people in fast paced
environments and driving pro table growth in challenging, competitive markets

(https://www.linkedin.com/in/ yinghokie)

Mike Abbott (https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyinghokie)

Mike has worked with more than 350 startup companies in developing business models around early stage
technologies and services.

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“The future of government is in open-source technologies and providing transparent election results will aid to
restoring faith in vote counting. I support efforts, like those used by Follow My Vote, that explore how open-source
software can lead to greater transparency, integrity and participation in voting.”

– Kammi Foote, Inyo County (CA) Registrar of Voters

"I believe that "more voices, more choices" will help shift the political power back to the people, away from the
control of a few corporations and political elites, creating a more balanced system where all are free and equal in
their ability to participate. This can only happen with honest voting and Follow My Vote provides the most
transparent and veri able voting process I have seen to date."

-Christina Tobin, Founder of the Free and Equal Elections Foundation (http://www.freeandequal.org/)

“Liberland aims to be the front-runner for all technological improvements that make citizens lives easier. That is
why we chose to be the rst users of Follow My Vote.”
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 -Vít Jedlička, President of Liberland (https://liberland.org/en/main/)

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Proxy Voting

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looking for new team members that can bring fresh perspectives and backgrounds to the Follow My Vote
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Our Mission
Follow My Vote’s mission is to promote truth and freedom by empowering
individuals to communicate effectively and implement non-coercive solutions to
societal problems.

As a rst step towards ful lling our mission, Follow My Vote is taking on the challenge of improving the
integrity standards of voting systems used in elections worldwide.

In order to ensure that election results are truly accurate, we are developing an online open source voting
platform that provides transparency into election results by allowing voters to independently audit the ballot
box. Using cutting edge technologies, such as blockchain technology (https://followmyvote.com/online-voting-
technology/blockchain-technology/) and elliptic curve cryptography (https://followmyvote.com/online-
voting-technology/elliptic-curve-cryptography/), we can actually accomplish this, all while protecting each
voter’s right to privacy.

After all, in an election, it’s not who votes that counts, it’s who counts the votes!

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