Bitcoin blockchain was used to secure the results of the Republican Congress of Tennessee County
On Tuesday, March 4, 2025, the Republican party Williamson County held its congress in Franklin Marriott in the heart of Williamson County, Tennessee.
At the event, the Republicans “Bona Fide” (who were right in the last three of four Republican primary elections) for the future of the local management of their party with the two sides in the competition – Elevate and the conservatives of the Williamson County – and each offer a blackboard of eight candidates.
The final results of the vote were used in (added) Bitcoin block 886.370 with the unchangeable proof service from Simple Proofs, an automated service with which the OpenTimeSTAMPS protocol used to protect public records.
Why easy evidence?
Easy evidence preserves the integrity of documents by committing digital versions of these documents in the field of arbitrary data (the OP_Return function) of a Bitcoin transaction. The documents are irrevocably obliged to a block of Bitcoin blockchain, which is unchangeable.
This technology has proven to be excellent for the storage of election records, as it contributes to preventing voting control as soon as a number of votes is completed.
Simple evidence stood on the map when it contributed to securing the coordination for the presidential elections in 2023 in Guatemala, the history of which is described in the short documentary “Unbelievable Democracy”.
The company also contributed to the integrity of the election results in Screven County, Georgia, last November.
It was actually this story from the County County of Screven, who attracted Steve Giraud’s attention, a Republican voter from Williamson County, who wanted to watch the integrity of the votes for the elections to lead the Republican leadership of Williamson County.
So, he and a friend with whom he organizes Bitcoin Meetups, Dave Birnbaum (also a contribution to Bitcoin Magazine), has turned to the easy evidence of the provision of his services.
“Steve, the person who contacted simple evidence, described himself as a” concerned citizen “,” said Cordon Cordon Cordon CTO Rafael (Rafa) to Bitcoin Magazine.
Cordon further explained that simple evidence is politically impartial and that it does not provide more than one technological service.
“We do not work directly for a political organization or electoral authority, but only for one person who wants to protect voting rights,” said Cordon.
Carlos Toriello, CEO of Simple Proof, repeated Cordon’s point that simple evidence for political groups does not work and only works to preserve the integrity of key selection end documents.
“You can use our service to know that the information on which you rely on has been preserved,” Toriello told Bitcoin Magazine. “In cases in which different interpretations of the same event can occur, an unchangeable digital record helps that everyone can achieve consensus according to the fact.”
Pre -convention tension
When I spoke the day before the coordination with Giraud, he looked visibly nervous about possible interference on the night of voices and/or legal measures in order to question the legitimacy of the election results.
Giraud, who is connected to the citizens of Williamson County, a group of “basic conservatives”, who believes in small government, low taxes and reduced regulation, explained that the Republican sect he belongs to, deeply described the conservatives of Williamson County, which he described as less ideologically motivated “establishment republicans”.
At the convention, Bona Fide’s Republicans would vote for a total of eight party leaders who were selected from the eight ballot papers from Elevate, the Republican group with which Giraud is connected, and eight on the ballot papers of Williamson County.
During the weeks before the congress, reports found that the conservatives of Williamson County carried out a misinformation campaign in which they claimed that Elevate had tried to suppress the vote because the Republican party of Williamson County (WCRP), which from a majority of the representatives of the elevate voting from the fact that this mandate of Tennesses Republican Party-Bylaws comes, was done.
According to Giraud, the conservatives of Williamson County also claimed that the WCRP changed the event location at the last minute as a means of reducing the turnout of the conservatives of Williamson County.
However, Giraud argued that this was not the case.
“In view of the turnout expected by us, we were very close to exceeding the maximum capacity or occupancy rate for the original event location, the Franklin Factory Liberty Hall,” he said.
“So someone said in the contest and credentialing committee (CCC) (which is an independent company of the WCRP) that he had to change the event location, which could disadvantage some voters. Now the WCRP will have volunteers in the factory with signs who say that the venue is changed and goes to the Marriott, “he added.
“But we are very concerned that the opposition, if loses it, threaten what the CCC did.”
In addition, the conservatives of Williamson County Williamson County bombed residents with mailers, texts and robo calls, some of which were financed by former Democrats.
Giraud said that the conservatives of Williamson County “carpet bombed 16,000 republican republicans in Williamson County with mailers – all of which cost around 4,000 US dollars.”
In a report it was claimed that the conservatives of Williamson County spent $ 50,000 for this campaign and that the news was “emotionally charged and aggressive”, which led to the conservatives of Williamson County and increased both the survey and reaction to accusations of the opposing group.
The coordination Counting Process
The validity of the coordination that you can preserve with Bitcoin blockchain does not guarantee easy evidence. Therefore, it is due to the local election circulation to ensure the legitimacy of the voting process.
Giraud explained that only real voters would be left into the election area on the night of the congress. He added that the coordination area “would be secured by deputy sheriffs” and that all voters receive a bracelet that they have to remove after voices so that they cannot be correct twice.
All votes are done about what Giraud called “Bubble Cards” on which the voters use a Sharpie pen to output eight candidates from the 16 on the ballot (the Elevate candidates on one side of the ballot and the candidates for Williamson County on the other).
Four voluntary observers – two of Elevate and two of Williamson County’s conservatives – monitor the vote.
During the vote, Giraud would act as a “judge for spoiled ballot papers” and allowed him to note the ballot papers about which someone outside of the bubbles or other irregularities that could cancel a vote.
Voting slips are fed by a machine (part of the coordination process, of which Giraud found that he does not necessarily like – “I am skeptical about everything a machine concerns in terms of a ballot device,” he said.)
The machines then produce the final coordination for the night. However, the results could be counted by hand at the request of Elevate or the Williamson County Conservatives.
The voting results
The Elevate candidates won all eight party leadership seats.
However, the victory was not undisputed.
After the machines had achieved the results, the conservatives of Williamson County requested a manual recording that the electoral commission of the state of Tennessee carried out according to Giraud. The recording led to an increase in profit with a slightly larger border than originally reported. (Simple Proof Timstampel Both the first results and the results from the manual recording linked in the first section of this piece with the Bitcoin blockchain.)
“We received a voice with the manual hand recording,” said Giraud.
Giraud also reported that his fears of potential mixtures of coordination were targeted in the night of the convention, since the process went smoothly, apart from a small, unexpected event.
“There were so many older people here that they opened the doors for early coordination,” he said.
At the end of the night, however, Giraud was not only relieved, but it was optimistic about what had taken place that evening, and hopefully that Simple Proofs technology would be used on a larger scale.
“I just introduced what I did to the soon -to -be chairman of the Republican Committee Williamson County, who will go back this evening,” said Giraud.
“He was very excited that we did so. I hope that he will help us to continue, not only in the county, but also in the lying counties and until the state at some point. That is my goal for the state of Tennessee: increase transparency, ”he added.
“I would hope that even the other side of Carlos (Toriello) and Rafa (Cordon) would like to approach this for documentation and future elections to hold us accountable and force truth and accountability. This is my goal as a concerned citizen. “
