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Similar to how blockchain provides transparency in cryptocurrency transactions by storing data in a public record, Agora hopes to provide transparency in elections.

In Sierra Leone, this was accomplished by each vote being stored on a joint, private blockchain network accessible only by election officials tasked with overseeing the election process. This reduces the chances of any vote, which were validated on the blockchain network in real time, from being tampered with.

By doing so, voter fraud and vote manipulation — problems that have occurred in the region and throughout the world— can possibly be prevented.

“I strongly believe that this election is the beginning of a much larger blockchain voting movement,” Agora CEO Leonardo Gammar told CoinDesk last Thursday following the elections.

Sierra Leone’s elections is yet another example of blockchain technology expanding outside of cryptocurrency technology with the potential to shape elections around the world. Agora says it’s already in talks with other countries to use its voting technology, CoinDesk said.

“You’re looking at a country that you probably wouldn’t normally expect to be the first to use transparent voting tech,” Agora’s COO Jaron Lukasiewicz said, according to Coindesk. “A country like Sierra Leone can ultimately minimize a lot of the fall-out of a highly contentious election by using software like this.”

Last week’s elections set to replace outgoing President Ernest Bai Koroma of the All People’s Congress party, who had served his maximum two-term limit in office.

Opposition leader Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People’s Party led with 43.3 percent of the vote in the first round of elections but failed to secure a majority vote needed to win, according to the electoral commission.

A runoff election will take place on March 27, the commission said.

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