Section: Software and Platforms

BitBallot: a decentralized voting protocol

The BitBallot voting protocol is designed to target large scale communities. The protocol allows users to share only restricted amounts of their data and computation with central platforms as well as other peers. Convinced by the need of new election mechanisms, to support emerging forms of more continuous democracy, we are developing BitBallot, to allow elections to be organized independently of any central authority. The protocol guarantees the following properties, anonymity of the data sources, non interruptible run-time, global access to results, and non predictability of results through partial communication spying.