On Tuesday, March 4, 2025, the Republican Party in Williamson Contestine concluded its agreement in Franklin Marriott, which is located in the heart of Williamson County, Tennessee.
In this event, the Republicans voted “Bona Fide” (those who voted in the last three out of four of the Republican preliminary elections) for the future of the leadership of their local party, with the two sides in the competition – Elevate and Williamson County Republicans – each offering a list of eight candidates.
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This technology has proven that it is excellent in maintaining the election records, as it helps prevent the tampering with the election results once the number of votes is completed.
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In fact, this story of the Screven County was the one that caught the attention of Steve Jerroud, a Republican voter based in Williamson, who wanted to see the safety of the vote of the Republican leadership elections in Williamson Province.
Therefore, he and a friend hosts with him, Meetups Bitcoin, Dave Birnbau (also a shareholder in Bitcoin), who has reached the simple guide to employ its services.
“Steve, the person who contacted the simple evidence, described himself as a” concerned citizen “,” the founder of a simple proof and CEO Rafa (Rafa) Kordon for Bitcoin.
Cordon went on to explain that the simple guide is a political neutral and that it does not do more than providing a technological service.
“We are not working directly with any political organization or electoral authority, just someone who wants to protect voting documents,” Cordon said.
Carlos Torilo, shot in the elections in a simple guide, repeated Kordon's point that a simple guide is not working on behalf of political groups and only maintains the integrity of the main election documents.
“They can use our service to know that the information they depend on has been preserved,” Torilo told Bitcoin.
Tension pre -degradation
When I spoke to Giraud the day before the vote, it seemed clearly tense from the potential intervention during the voting night and/or legal measures that are taken to challenge the legitimacy of the election results after the truth.
Jiro, who belongs to Citizens of Williamson Province,, A group of “Al -Qaeda Conservatives”, which believes in the small government, low taxes and low organization, explained that the Republican community to which he belongs to the governor of Williamson Province, which he described as “Republicans” less ideological condemnation.
At the conference, the Republicans will vote in favor of a total of eight parties ’leaders, who were chosen from the eight who were placed in the polling by Elevate, the Republican Group in which Giraud belongs, and eight who were placed in the poll by the governors of Williamson.
In the weeks before the agreement, Reports They stated that the Republic of Williamson Province managed a misleading campaign in which they claimed that Elevate was trying to suppress the vote because the Republican Party of Williamson (WCRP), consists of the majority of actors from the high, imposed a personal vote in the agreement, although this state comes from this state Tennessee Republican Party regulations.
According to Giraud, Williamson Provincial Governor also claimed that WCRP is not the place at the last minute as a way to limit the voters ’demand from the governor of Williamson Province.
Jiro argued that this was not.
“Given the turnout we were expecting, we were very close to exceeding the maximum capacity or occupancy rate for the original place, Franklin Factory Liberty Hall.”
“Therefore, a person in the Competition and Accreditation Committee (CCC) (a separate entity from WCRP) said that he must change the place, which may harm some voters. Now, WCRP will have volunteers in the factory with signs that say” The place has been changed, go to Marriott. “
“But we are very concerned that if the opposition is lost, they will threaten lawsuits because CCC did.”
What's more, the governor of Williamson bombed the residents of Williamson Province with correspondents, texts and family calls, Partial funding from former Democrats.
Jeroud said that the governors of Williamson “” bombing the carpet 16,000 accountable Republicans in Williamson Province with correspondents – every 5,000 of them cost about 4000 dollars. “
A a report He claimed that the governors of Williamson Province spent 50,000 dollars in this campaign and that the correspondence was “emotional and aggressive”, which led to the governors of Williamson Province and raised the imposition of the imposition and the response to the accusations taken by the opposition group.
The process of counting sounds
The simple guide does not guarantee the authenticity of voting connections that help keep them using Bitcoin Blockchain, so it is up to the local election council to ensure the legitimacy of the voting process.
Jerroud explained that only voters will be allowed in the voting area on the conference night. He added that the field of voting will be “guaranteed by police deputies” and that all voters get a wrist that they must remove by simply voting so that they cannot vote twice.
All voting on what Giraud called “bubble cards”, where voters use Sharpie to fill their selection eight of the 16 candidates in the ballot (high candidates on one side of the polls and conservative candidates in Williamson on the other side).
Four volunteer observers – two from Elevate and two from Williamson Province – are watching voting.
During the vote, Giraud was a “judge in spoiled voting cards”, allowing him to notice any polls that a person wrote outside the bubbles or other violations that could fill the vote.
Polling cards are fed through a machine (part of the voting process that Jeroud indicated that he does not necessarily like – “I am skeptical of anything that includes a machine when it comes to the polling mark device,” he said.)
Then the machines produce the final voting balance for this night, although the results can be calculated with an application either Elevate or Williamson Province Governor.
Voting results
The high candidates won all the eight party leadership seats.
Victory did not go without controversy, though.
After the machines produced the results, the Williamson Country governors asked to re -sort the manual voices, which was conducted by the Tennessee Wilayat Elections Committee, according to Siro. Re -sorting resulted in a slightly wider margin than what was initially reported. ( Initial results And the results of the re -sorting of manual sounds, associated with the first section of this piece, to Bitcoin Blockchain.)
“With the re -sorting the hand, we got one vote,” said Jiro.
Jerroud also stated that his concerns about the possible vote on the night of the agreement were decorated, because the process went smoothly, regardless of a slight and unexpected occurrence.
“There were so many elderly people here so that they opened the doors for early vote,” he said.
By the end of the night, Giraud was not only comfortable, although he was optimistic about what happened in that evening and also hoped to use the Proof Simple technology on a larger scale.
“I just presented what I did to the president who will be close to the Republican Committee for the Williamson Province, who is stepped as of night,” Jerroud said.
He was very excited because we were doing this. I hope it helps us take this, not only in the boycott, but in remote provinces as well as even the state at some point. This is my goal for Tennessee: increased transparency. “
“I hope that the other side will deal with Carlos (Torilo) and RAFA (Choron) and I want to use this for documents as well as future elections to hold us accountable and forced the truth and accountability. This is my goal as a meaningful citizen.”