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Re:Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election by dtech on Friday March 16, 2018 @03:09AM (#16599104)
That doesn't answer how the vote is anonymous. Presumably every coin/token has an unique identifier, and the issuer knows who received which coin.

And since it's a public blockchain, you know exactly which token went to whom.

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Re:Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election by sannee on Friday March 16, 2018 @04:41AM (#16599375)
> And since it's a public blockchain, you know exactly which token went to whom.

You don't (well, shouldn't) know with Z-Cash/Zerocoin

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