Very good question ! YES you can vote offline then you have 8 or 9 hours dep on how long the event is open for to find internet and send your vote.
We helped Sierra Leone and Congo 2 countries where internet is not everywhere and it worked fine, with internet hotspot and satellite. If internet is available in some keys points it’s just fine for us.
Questions about the utility of the token: Agora provides a variety of blockchain based voting services BaaS utilising a proprietary, zero financial incentive consensus mechanism (Proof of Sign). Agora incentives the auditing of elections. So Agora pays auditors all over the world to watch the consensus and the election overall. Election officials contract Agora and pay the fee, Agora takes 50% in average to go buy vote tokens on the secondary market, burn 10% of them, a reserve of vote tokens is put aside to pay the node operators and those verifying the election, the election happens, results are verified and nodes and verifiers are paid out with final results being securely stored on the public ledger.
Agora’s token free consensus mechanism is validated by, reputable, invite-only, not-for-profits who house our nodes. During an election, KYCed Auditors will watch these nodes and provide instant and honest feedback through a simple and easy to use interface on their smart device or computer, which takes approximately 15 minutes. For this service, auditors get paid.
i) VOTE is a utility token: auditors must work to earn their VOTE tokens.
Auditors are contractors of Agora, they are randomly selected and contracted for one day, the election day. Their job is to watch the election.
ii) Auditors have to tell the truth: in order to be eligible for election auditing, auditors need to stake a portion of their tokens. They are putting some of their skin in the game, it’s a collateral for their honesty. If they don’t tell the truth, their tokens will be taken away from them and given to charity.
Since they are KYCed they will no longer be able to audit elections afterwards.
(Here, we don’t want to go into too much detail of all the statistical data, AI theories, etc, that Agora is using to solve point ii). Another article will be dedicated to the technicalities of our system, for now let’s just focus on the business side).
iii) Auditors get paid: they worked during the election day for roughly 15 minutes; audited the consensus by watching the behaviour of the nodes, flagged abnormalities, if any, on the technical side, or on the ground if they’re on the spot. They then get paid proportionally to the tokens they staked.
We split our money with our auditors: They are our contractors but the beauty of all this is that, they don’t know us, don’t like their only incentive is to tell the truth
for example if a node is down between 3pm and 3:15pm and auditors report it, it’s in our favor, we can repair