What if we could increase voter participation and election credibility via secure, verifiable online voting for elections?   Researchers are building systems to utilize the immutability, transparency and distributed consensus properties of blockchain.  We are finding that a blockchain based voting system could solve many of the current day election challenges. Arnab Ghosh is a recent Electrical & Computer Engineering  graduate of University of Waterloo and budding entrepreneur.  Find out why he made the design choices he did on his prototype and how it improves upon existing tech-start up systems currently available. To learn more, you can read his master's thesis  and stay tuned for his code going public on GitHub.