Can Quantum Save Democracy? Quantum Voting Experiments Put Ballot Secrecy and Election Security to the Test
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Quantum-secured voting trials move election integrity from software trust to physics guarantees. For anyone building identity, audit, or civic-tech rails, this is an early signal that future-proof cryptography and verifiable processes will become procurement requirements, not research topics.
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