Introduction

Vote is the base of the democracy

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Abraham Lincoln

The problem

Giving power on an intermediary to process the votes is a threat in case of malicious actor. Even with electronic voting system, there are not clear proof of frauds but still remain some questions (article here).

Can we leverage the decentralized feature of blockchain to solve the intermediary problem ? It what TzVote claims to provide

Solution

TzVote helps you deploy your own poll on a smart contract and gives you a simple website to interact with it

Flavours

There are different ways to create a poll, so we decided to create template for each particular use cases. First, here are the criteria to consider :

question count : how many question on the poll ?
option count : how many options on the answer ?
votes choices count : only once or multiple answers
voting power : how is calculated the end result
dates : dates to consider
censorship resistant : what is the level of decentralization of your poll ?
privacy : does the poll include hidden ballot and preserve anonymity ?

Here are the available templates :

name	#questions	#options	#choices	voting power	dates	censorship resistant	privacy
permissioned vote	1	n	1	1 allowed address = 1 vote	from, to	poll creator choose voters	no
baker vote	1	n	1	Tezos baker total stake	Tezos voting period	yes	no

Next developments

bring complete anonymity, ballots might be hidden (to avoid physical threats)
bring more templates : Borda, Samarkand
Proof of Humanity

TzVote Documentation

Introduction

The problem

Solution

Flavours

Next developments

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