CHANDLER, AZ: "Arizonans are used to going to the polls or mailing in their ballots each election, but new technology could change the way we vote. The city of Chandler is testing blockchain technology that would allow residents to vote in elections straight from their smartphones.

“You have to go through our authentication process to be able to actually vote so you scan your ID which matches the voter registration rolls and then you take a selfie so it has to authenticate your face and at the end, you sign the ballot and that gets checked against your voter registration,” Chandler City Clerk Dana DeLong said.

Chandler is the first city in Arizona to test this type of technology. Right now, mobile voting isn’t legal in Arizona. The state would have to change voting laws but the city of Chandler wants to be ready in case that happens in the future."

https://www.kold.com/2021/12/01/city-chandler-tests-mobile-voting-app/

WASHINGTON: "Two D.C. teenagers are facing 98 charges after being indicted in November in connection with armed robberies and kidnappings across Northwest D.C. back in 2020. Prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C. say 19-year-olds Mekhi Truesdale and William Bell, of Washington, D.C., robbed at least 20 people at gunpoint or knifepoint between Oct. 17 and Nov. 1, 2020. Bell was arrested Tuesday in California. Truesdale was arrested in on Nov. 5, 2020. Court docs say the duo forced several victims into cars before they were robbed, sometimes taking phones and using money transfer apps like Cash App and Venmo to send themselves and others funds from victims’ bank accounts. 19-year-old Jada Winter of Greenbelt, Md. is also charged in the case. She allegedly received some of those stolen funds."

https://www.localdvm.com/news/washington-dc/d-c-teens-facing-98-charges-for-2020-armed-robberies-kidnappings/