Brazil: Petitions on the Ethereum Blockchain

Blockchain technology is always breaking new ground in a wide variety of areas. Now Brazil wants to organize its petitions, which allow the population to vote in Parliament, decentralized through the Ethereum Blockchain.

Academic degrees in Greece , data from the health sector or property rights to photographs - there are many plans for the use of Blockchain. The decentralized technology convinces in many areas and always finds new application areas. Especially for the topic of secure data collection, it is predestined. This has also recognized Brazil and now wants to trade paper chaos against Blockchain

The Brazilian government allows the population to launch petitions on topics to be discussed in Parliament. If the petition is signed by 1% of the country's population, it will be submitted to Congress and the government will be required to review it.

However, the regular collection and verification of such paper-based signatures is understandably time-consuming and ineffective. Therefore, sometimes even petitions that have received the required number of signatures are not reviewed by the authorities due to the confusion caused by the many papers.

Eliminate paper chaos, verify signatures, avoid fraud
The programmer Ricardo Fernandes Paixão and the political advisor Everton Fraga seem to have found an innovative solution to this problem by capturing and storing signatures on the Ethereum Blockchain. Your system would make it possible to avoid a lot of paperwork, simplify the verification process and eliminate counterfeiting.

The Brazilian government supported the initiative and has started to develop a mobile app that will allow them to sign up for the system online and to sign signatures for petitions to be supported or to petition them. These signatures are hashed and recorded daily on the Ethereum Blockchain. Such a system ensures that no signature is lost or forged. Due to the decentralized structure of the system, anyone will be able to see the actual number of signatures for a particular petition, eliminating the possibility of manipulating or falsifying the voting results.