Horizon State Interview
HORIZON STATE INTERVIEW Inter vi ewe d b y: S tefa n S athi anathe n W ebsi te : www.ho rizo ns tate . c o m
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This is set to be a global gamechanger and will soon be adopted by political parties, multinational enterprises, global NGOs and communities in developing countries.
Horizon’s secure digital ballot box represents a cost-effective and smart solution to the problems inherent in today’s voting procedures.
Jamie Skella
Horizon State is the future of voting and collaborative decision making. Horizon State has built a token-based blockchain voting and decision-making platform that delivers unprecedented trust through the integrity and post-unforgeable attributes of blockchain technology. Horizon State delivers a secure digital ballot box that cannot be hacked, wherein results can never be altered, and voter identities are protected.
Horizon State Co-founder
How does Horizon State improve voting over traditional paper methods? Jamie Skella (JS): Horizon State betters traditional methods in many ways, but I like to break these down into three key categories: cost, efficiency, and security. So far as cost and efficiency is concerned, our platform enables 10x improvements across the board. Using Australia’s marriage equality vote as an example, we’d have shaved months off of the time it took to orchestrate, and reduced the expense from $120 million to about $2 million. Then there’s the immeasurable improvement of security: the record of the result applied to blockchain technology is perfectly secure; it’s tamper proof. This is a stark contrast to the reality of the marriage equality postal vote, where votes ended up in the wrong hands, and hundreds were even left out in the rain. Other than cost-cutting, why would a company or government use Horizon State? JS: It’s important to call out that it’s not just governments who can benefit from this technology, but enterprise and NGOs as well. Cost
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