Zug Official: Blockchain-Based City Ranking, Despite Low Participation, 'Successful'

According to the news of the Swiss News Agency on July 2nd, the first blockchain-based local municipal election of Switzerland's Zug city has been completed successfully.

Also known as the Crypto Valley, Zug announced in June that it is beginning to use a blockchain-based voting system in which citizens can vote on their mobile devices, using the eID system (digital identity) introduced in November 2017.
Dieter Müller, Zug's city communications officer, told Swiss News Agency that "the premiere was successful," and stressed that technical issues such as verifiability of results and privacy of voting due to privacy will be examined in the next few months.

The small selection was made with 72 out of 240 citizens who had access to the online voting system participated in the non-binding trial round between 25 June and 1 July. In an interview with Müller newspaper, the number of participants was higher than the number of participants.

The questionnaire, which was presented to vote for citizens, was asked whether small-scale issues related to the municipality as well as a blockchain-based EID system should be used for future referendum votes. According to the Swiss News Agency, three people say it is not easy to vote digitally, while 22 people say they can use blockchain technology for tax declarations or questionnaires, 19 people can pay parking tickets using their digital IDs, and three people can use this technology to borrow books from the library He has.

Switzerland is known as the "Crypto Country" because of its optimistic tax laws and its moderate attitude towards the first digital money supply. Later in June, Zug's Finance Manager had a call to the Swiss Bankers' Association to open a bank account for companies related to the blockchain.