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by vpeters25 3234 days ago
Maybe an auditable electronic voting system: each candidate's campaign can run their own "miner" making it impossible to tamper with voter results.

On the other hand such a system might make the individual votes less anonymous ...

Edit: campaigns and any other interested party such as the press

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We did a POC for shareholder voting for the Indian stock exchange.

Auth is handled by the stock exchange and votes / proxies are handled on the block chain portion.

I wasn't involved in the project, but it seems like the primary benefits are public auditability and the immutable nature of the transactions were the value drivers. As implemented, full trust is placed in the (non block chain) central exchange for initial vote assignment and all auth.