Thailand’s main opposition group, the Democratic Party, became the first political party in the world to use blockchain technology in a primary election. More than 120,000 voters participated in a live e-voting system. It saw former Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva gain 67,505 votes to win his party nomination.

The election was held from November 1-9 and was leveraged using Zcoin’s blockchain. The party decided to use ZCoin’s public blockchain to add more transparency as it had no administrator.

Zcoin said in its online post:

“The vote was concluded with a total of 127,479 votes that came from all over Thailand and to the best of our knowledge this is the world’s first application of blockchain technology in a political election…

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