CASE STUDY | Before Kenya Argued About Blockchain Voting, 4 Students Had Already Run an Election On It
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In April 2018, while the country was still litigating a nullified presidential vote, a Kenyan-founded venture put a school’s student government election on a smart contract. Nobody – including the people who wrote it – could see the count. In September 2017, Kenya’s Supreme Court did something no court on the continent had done before. It annulled a presidential election, and it did so not because of the ballots but because of what happened to the numbers between the polling station and the tallying centre. The court’s problem was transmission. The count itself was never really the issue.
Source: BitKE
