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Re:You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why The... by lmm on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:33PM (#19227779)
Electronic voting wants an append-only/log-structured distributed database, but the certifiers can't be anonymous (otherwise anyone can just run a "polling station" and submit whatever "votes" they want). You'd want votes to be signed according to some centralised PKI infrastructure. And at that point there's no need for "mining" and what you have isn't blockchain.

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