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<h2>Leader election<a class="headerlink" href="#leader-election" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The leader election mechanism is used to <strong>elect</strong> one peer per organization
which will maintain connection with the ordering service and initiate distribution of
newly arrived blocks across the peers of its own organization. Leveraging leader election
provides the system with the ability to efficiently utilize the bandwidth of the ordering
service. There ar