Sierra Leone Just Held the World’s First Blockchain-Powered Election
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The claim of the first blockchain election seems to have started with a press release PDF from a blockchain outfit named Agora. Agora talked up blockchain as a fine way to ensure the integrity of votes in any election, especially those conducted with known-to-be-fallible voting machines. But enthusiasm for crypto-anything can get around the world before proper analysis gets out of bed.
So the National Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone eventually felt obliged to hose down reports of its blockhain breakthrough the situation with this tweet. Agora, meanwhile, has taken to Medium to claim that media reports critical of its role were made by a competitor. That claim leaves Agora both correcting accounts that it ran the whole election and decrying critics who pointed out such accounts were incorrect. And a modest win for the All Peoples Congress party, which took 63 of seats and should therefore be able to work with minor parties to form a workable government.
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