Beware of Blockchain stories with unsubstantiated facts. The original story had many red flags, not the least of which being the use of the future tense in a quote by Gammar.

“Anonymized votes/ballots are being recorded on Agora’s blockchain, which will be publicly available for any interested party to review, count and validate,” said Gammar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16598210

The space is littered with claims like this that turn out to be nonsense. Don't trust, verify.