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The world’s first blockchain-powered elections just happened in Sierra Leone (qz.com)
8 points by shiv86 3017 days ago
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The problem with any publicly-verifiable voting scheme is the it opens the market to vote-selling: once a person can "prove" they voted a certain way, they can confidently sell their vote.

This is the entire reason photos are prohibited in voting booths.