THELOGICALINDIAN - Election history was afresh fabricated as Sierra Leone became the aboriginal country to use blockchain technology to verify voting after-effects in their presidential election
The appliance of blockchain technology recorded addition anniversary recently. While the avant-garde technology has fabricated amazing strides in business, it is now putting its brand aloft the political sphere.
The country of Sierra Leone has the acumen of actuality the aboriginal to affection blockchain-verified voting in the country’s presidential election.
In aftermost week’s presidential acclamation in Sierra Leone, blockchain technology was acclimated to verify voting results. However, the new tech was not acclimated throughout the accomplished country. Rather, it was bedfast to the country’s best crawling region.
The voting action was overseen by Agora, a Swiss-based blockchain startup. Once the voting had taken place, up to 400,000 ballots were again manually entered into Agora’s blockchain. The final aftereffect for the arena (not country!) as tabulated by Agora: Samura Kamara (APC) was the champ with 54.7% of the votes, while Julius Bio (SLPP) came in additional with 32.5%.
Agora CEO Leonardo Gammar was admiring by how able-bodied the action formed and of approaching possibilities, saying:
However, the presidential acclamation in Sierra Leone is not the aboriginal time that blockchain technology has been acclimated in the political realm.
Moscow is application the technology as allotment of its Active Citizen voting arrangement area association can vote on burghal issues (but not political candidates). Brazil is additionally using the technology to acquiesce citizens to calmly assurance and verify accepted petitions.
Proponents of application blockchain technology for voting say that its use will abundantly abate fraud, which will ensure honest elections. That actuality said, there are above aloofness concerns. Having about arresting votes can abate the anonymity offered by accepted voting practices.
Some altercate application a permission blockchain would advice as it would alone acquiesce a few bodies to absolutely admission the records, but the achievability of accepting a government official (or aloof the approved public) apperceive how an alone vote goes adjoin the apriorism of chargeless and fair elections.
Still, it is agitative to see how this technology continues to acquisition real-world uses. It’s acceptable to be adopted for acclamation assignment in added countries as Agora is in talks with countries in Europe and Africa.
What do you anticipate about Sierra Leone application the blockchain to verify voting results? How do you anticipate aloofness apropos should be handled? Let us apperceive in the comments below.
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