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Re:Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election by krrrh on Saturday March 17, 2018 @04:30PM (#16608912)
All true, but the fact that “hanging chad” became part of the national lexicon for a while really speaks to a poorly design ballot.
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Re:Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election by specialist on Sunday March 18, 2018 @11:36AM (#16612412)
There are a lot of examples of incompetence. eg the butterfly ballots where the candidates and the circles don't line up.

With the "hanging chads", the administrators hadn't cleaned the machines for years (after each election, turn over the machines and shake out the chads), so the holes filled up with chads, preventing new votes. Otherwise, the punch ballots weren't the worst option.

Sorry to geek out about this stuff. It was my thing for a while.

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