Sierra Leon presidential voting

Agora acted as an international observer in the Sierra Leone election, and it was accredited for this role by the African nation's National Electoral Commission (NEC). Importantly, Agora did not do the official vote count; that was the NEC's job. Agora provided an independent count of ballots that the official results could be compared against, and only for the Western district of Sierra Leone, not the whole country. Agora workers on the ground manually recorded its tally on a private blockchain.

Agora endeavors to spread fair and transparent elections around the world with end-to-end verifiable blockchain voting technology. To realize this mission, we have spent the past two-and-a-half years assembling, what is in our view, a highly capable team and technology that can meet the evolving needs of voting administrators. Agora’s voting solution satisfies all of the requirements that we believe are necessary to ensure a free and fair election, including transparency, privacy, integrity, affordability and accessibility.

Blockchain is the key technology that unlocks this mission. Blockchain provides a trustless, digital and decentralized method of generating cryptographically secure records, which also preserve the anonymity of participants while remaining open to public inspection. Applied to voting, blockchain ensures that votes are recorded accurately, transparently, permanently and securely.