The following is from an excerpt from the article, Four Blockchain Bills Introduced in New York State Assembly, by Elizabeth Zima from Govtech.com, the online portal to the publication ‘Government Technology’. Continue reading here:

A New York lawmaker has introduced four bills covering blockchain, making it one of several states to consider the issue in 2017. Horrified by reports that the Russians might have hacked voting machines and the fact that one county lost a high number of voter records in 2016, New York Assemblyman Clyde Vanel introduced four bills this past week to prevent this from ever happening in the state. “In 2016, Kings County lost 120,000 voter records,” Vanel said. “I felt we needed to secure and safeguard our election system. I wondered if blockchain (technology) was the solution.” Because the uses of blockchain technology are largely untested in government records keeping, Vanel introduced three bills to study the technology and the effects it would have on securing voting records, election results and government record storage.

Democrat Assembly member Clyde Vanel was elected to the New York State Assembly on November 8, 2016. He serves the 33rd Assembly district of Queens, New York, encompassing the neighborhoods of Cambria Heights, St. Albans, Hollis, Queens Village, Bellerose and parts of Floral Park.