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The original story wasn't very clear how blockchain was involved. It seems very likely now with the NEC denying the claims that it was a bunch of hype.

>“Agora’s results for the two districts they tallied differed considerably from the official results, according to an analysis of the two sets of statistics carried out by RFI,”

>Was Agora simply attempting a PR stunt in support of its upcoming token sale.

almost certainly

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> The original story wasn't very clear how blockchain was involved.

Didn't stop the ridiculously titled "Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election"[1] from being shared and strongly upvoted here on HN.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16622245

I voted it up. I read the article because I'm interested in Sierra Leone and was interested in keeping an eye on developments (like how exactly blockchain was involved)...

I should probably raise my standards for upvoting.

You're linking to this thread; I think you mean to link to this one, which has 500+ upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16598210

Thanks, my mistake (and apparently too late to edit my original comment).

Well I guess I need to update my opinion on that story from "Cool application of blockchains!" to "Would've been a cool application of blockchains!"

for what it is worth, the indigenous Sierra Leone News site I follow has 0 references to "blockchain" and only one to "agora" (which doesn't seem to actually contain "agora")

http://www.thesierraleonetelegraph.com/?s=blockchain

http://www.thesierraleonetelegraph.com/?s=agora

Not the OP.

That's good information you posted. Thank you!

>(which doesn't seem to actually contain "agora")

I do believe that's a hit on "So Pythagoras was wrong?"

dangit Safari... you should show that when I cmd-f "agora"

Why check your sources when you can publish both the outrageous article and then a retraction as well? Instant click doubling!

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