Cleveland-based Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Votem, a revolutionary mobile voting platform, have announced the successful completion of ‘FanVote’ for this year’s inductees, on the blockchain platform.
The cutting-edge blockchain platform has powered the successful fan vote enabling the Rock Hall to easily collect votes from around the world without the risk of ‘software bots’ falsely adding to the vote counts, the release stated.
“We are so pleased to have supported the Rock Hall in their online Fan Vote, and Board Vote, this year using our Blockchain-based mobile voting platform. The Rock Hall is a progressive organization and they wanted to ensure that this year’s online vote was secure, accurate and immune to hacking. We’re pleased to have accomplished this for them,” Pete Martin, CEO of Votem, stated.
The online voting platform of Votem leveraged blockchain framework of Tendermint in order to bring enhanced security, uptime, and performance in the voting process.
Over 1,880,000 votes were recorded that remains as largest use of online voting using blockchain to date. The vote saw people from all 50 states and the District of Columbia accessing the Rock Hall voting site from 100 different countries, to cast their votes for their favorite rock artists.
“Rock & Roll is all about the fans and tapping into the connection they have with the music. Giving fans a way to engage in the Induction voting taps into that energy and makes deeper connections between the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Rock Fans, as well as among fans themselves,” Todd Mesek, VP Marketing for the Rock Hall, said.
