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>Hm. Well, I don't know how they implemented the system. I just assumed that the votes (blocks) were cryptographically blinded and thus the whole thing could be published without compromising anonymity. An oracle basically.

They implemented this as intended, real blockchain with some anonymized tokens as id. Problem that process is non-transparent, i.e. you don't get transaction id or anything after vote for example. Recently they've published web interface to view transactions, although they don't contain data that allows check your own vote. Some people already described internals and say that there some problems with data validation, especially about voter counts.

But whatever, for that specific election everyone know what happened, and it would happen with or without electronic system.

>I was guessing that the voter would, as part of the voting process, get back a signed certificate with something like the block hash and a blinded MAC of his party choice, his device verifies it, he approves it cross-sign it and submit it. Thus he would have a certificate to compare against what's found in the blockchain, which would prevent replacing the whole chain

Yes, blockchain-based voting system potentially may be made very transparent. Although there is no complete solution for proving that you didn't mess with certificate (and blaming you for this while silently replacing the chain). This requires large amount of "loyal" voters who would be silent and administrative support though.

I guess adding another independent blockchain into voting system may solve issues, although it would work only for those organizations who really want clear elections.

>However, I thought a verifiable system (like blockchain-based) was at least interesting

As far as I know, some companies already providing commercial voting system for non-government purposes (in-organisation voting or such) based on blockchain that look relative ok from outside. Sadly most of "blockchain" "tech" is a scam nowadays, and it is rarely used for things where blockchain fits best.