We produce video content to educate citizens about the voting process. Our system provides opportunity for digital work that anyone can accomplish through honest input in exchange for cryptocurrency rewards. We reduce inequality by ensuring that anyone can compete in an honest election, making voter fraud is impossible without evidence. When voting systems are no longer trusted, transitions of power in democracy are no longer peaceful (example: Bolivia October 2019).

Public trust in democratic voting systems is crashing worldwide causing a spike in civic apathy, particularly in youth. In Latin America this can be attributed to increasing perceptions of rigged voting systems. A few election examples are: 2017 Honduras, 2019 Ecuador, 2019 Guatemala and, most alarmingly, 2019 Bolivia. Peaceful transitions of power need to be guaranteed for future generations to thrive, but to do so, public trust in voting results must be rescued. Distrust in voting results causes civil conflicts and strengthens corrupt power structures, potentially destroying the future for youth. Before this extreme, apathy in young people explodes as they conclude: “I don’t vote or participate because the game is rigged.” Our solution empowers youth to lead the rescue effort and become heroes of democracy around the world. The answer to apathy? Empowerment. The solution to rigged voting? Trust but verify. #Fiscal_Digital, we count the votes together! We became directly affected by this as our team members all live in Guatemala and have had experience being voting table volunteers in several elections prior to 2019. In addition, we supported several congressional candidates that would support blockchain adoption in their run to become representatives in Congress. Unfortunately, we believe that they were directly impacted by the fraudulent Guatemalan voting system, effectively cheated out of their seat. Our support for them was for naught since the game was rigged.

Officially certified voting results documentation is produced by election authorities. They are available to accredited agents from political parties and election observers, forcing citizens to trust these third parties to protect their vote. #Fiscal_Digital disinter-mediates trust from these third parties by forming multi-party observer coalitions, in exchange, documents become publicly available via multiple independently verifiable methods. Additionally, if #Fiscal_Digital results differ from official results, we can mathematically prove that ours are more trust-worthy. This demonstrates to election authorities that blockchain is faster, cheaper and safer than their current technology. Adoption of blockchain by election authorities becomes probable, eliminating the need to create multi-party observer coalitions in future elections. We are blockchain polyamorous, links to Guatemalan prototype details for: Bitcoin - https://ceiba.io/elecciones-generales-de-guatemala-2019-en-el-blockchain/ HoriZEN - https://blog.horizen.global/empowering-guatemalan-citizens-with-fiscal-digital/ EOS - https://ceiba.io/usando-eosio-para-prevenir-fraude-electoral-con-fiscal_digital/ DogeCoin - https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157396770354831&id=513209830