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The Associated Press (AP) is doing more than reporting the US presidential election news. It’s publishing all incoming result details from the Nov. 3 election onto the Ethereum and EOS blockchain developer website, “Integrate your election systems with AP Elections API.”

Developer AP Elections API uses blockchain

Developers can now retrieve all the latest election data using their own digital tools. The API provides access to all the data that is available via FTP. Blockchain-based technologies provide a more secure digital ledger that is automatically updating.

The developer web page describes how to access the AP Elections API, where results are being recorded as a digital ledger to the blockchain by Everipedia’s OraQle software.

The results are also being reported on the main AP website. Using the blockchain-based Everipedia is an attempt to provide a complete, unhackable, and permanent record of the updates and calls for each state in real-time.

This is the first time the AP Elections API has been published on the blockchain.

AP released the Ethereum smart contract address, which provides readers information on how to use block explorers like Etherscan to enable automatic updating of results.

AP recommends AP’s EOS account on Bloks.io as a more accessible version of the election results because it collates results from all “called” states.

David Scott, AP deputy managing editor said, “There is no national election commission in the United States that tells us who won on Election Day,”  Scott who helps oversee AP’s coverage of elections added that “Statewide results aren’t available in every state, either. If we want to know who the next president will be, we’ve got to do the math ourselves — county by county nationwide.”

2020 US elections chaos

The 2020 U.S. election has been controversial. The voter turnout has been large. And because of the techno-pandemic, there has been a huge volume of mail-in ballots.

President Donald Trump is running as a Republican against former Vice President Joe Biden the Democrat. Key battleground states are counting ballots in a wide variety of ways. And the margins are razor-thin. There are on-going disputes and legal battles unfolding.

The stock market, the cryptocurrency world, and every investor is anxiously awaiting the election outcome. At this point, everyone is wondering what effect it will have on economies and markets.

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