Zug, the “Crypto Valley” of Switzerland, has successfully completed the first blockchain-based voting, according to Swissinfo.ch.

The blockchain-based municipal voting was conducted from June 25 to July 01. It used the city’s eID system that was introduced in Zug last November.

“The premiere was a success”, said Dieter Müller, head of communications for the city of Zug, said (as quoted by Swissinfo.ch), adding that the technical details of the test vote would be evaluated in the forthcoming months.

The evaluation will focus on the system’s ability to protect privacy, maintain voting secrecy, and ensuring that the voting results are verifiable, unchangeable and comprehensible.

Voters were able to cast their vote using their smartphones. They just needed to download the existing uPort app to register. However, the participation was quite low as only 72 out of 240 with access to registering with the online voting system, participated in the process.

According to the feedback received, almost all participants, except three, said that they found it easy to vote digitally. Around 22 respondents said that they would use the digital ID to complete their tax returns or to participate in future surveys. Another 19 respondents said that they would like to use their digital IDs to pay parking fees, and another 3 indicated that would theoretically use the system to borrow books from the library.