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S2EP51 Reshape the way we vote | Shai Bargil, Sequent

·40 min·3 clips
Shai Bargil reveals why digital voting has failed to spread worldwide due to a lack of verifiable evidence in vote counting.
Shai Bargil, co-founder and CEO of Sequent, discusses how his startup is revolutionizing voting through cryptographic, open-source technology that ensures transparency and security. He explains the challenges of digital voting, Sequent's solutions, and the company's journey in the GovTech space, including client successes and distributed team dynamics.

As heard by us

The cryptography is the hook, but the episode earns its weight by staying honest about the limits and risks of voting systems.

Shai Bargil gets at the part of online voting that is easy to hand-wave past: the hard work is not only encryption, but showing that a ballot was handled correctly from start to finish.

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Why you'd press play

You want the messy mechanics behind verifiable online voting, not a vague civic-tech slogan.

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