Vocdoni @jordipainan Core developer Digital, anonymous, end-to-end verifiable & censorship resistant Voting in the 21st century Vocdoni Vocdoni Disrupting traditional voting Traditional voting systems Slow, costly and trust based ● Everything analogic ○ Identification ○ Ballot submission ○ Tally ○ Communication* ● Low frequency ● Lots of human power and coordination efforts Spanish national elections: €2.97 p/p Voting system & voter risks ● Double voting ● Monopolized ● Vote buying ● Voter fraud ● Voter intimidation ● Voter suppression ● Voting machine tampering ● Tally fraud Vocdoni Disrupting traditional voting What should voting be like in the 21st century? ● Digital first ○ Identification ○ Ballot submission ○ Tally ○ Communication ● Accessible ● Anonymous ● Cheap ● Decentralized ● Open ● Recurrent ● Secure ● Trustless ● Verifiable Vocdoni Vocdoni’s approach An e-voting system based on decentralized technologies Digital first ● Communication: social media, forum, chat... ● Identification: cryptographic keys (avoids double voting) ● Ballot submission: web browser, mobile app, desktop app... ● Tally: no human intervention, decentralized, mathematically demonstrable Cheap, accessible and recurrent ● In the order of magnitude of cents per voter ● Accessible from anywhere at any time ● Voting should as easy as sending a text message Vocdoni Vocdoni’s approach An e-voting system based on decentralized technologies ● Free and open-source based software ○ Ideally open hardware too ● Everyone can participate in the voting system ○ Run a voting process ○ Run hardware and software infrastructure ○ Validate current and past voting processes ● Census is publicly available (avoids ballot stuffing) ● Blockchain based: A voting process is held in a distributed Byzantine fault-tolerant state machine Open Verifiable Decentralized Transparent Trustless Vocdoni Vocdoni’s approach An e-voting system based on decentralized technologies Anonymous ● Using cryptographic techniques such as: ○ Blind-signatures ○ zkSNARK ● So you can avoid voter intimidation, suppression, judgements and social cancellation Secure ● FOSS is available to everyone and can be audited ● Mathematical and cryptographic primitives Vocdoni Key features ● Can be used indistinctly by Web2 / Web3 organizations ○ Same system, changes census and authentication ○ Available different frontend flavors ● An all-in-one ballot protocol ○ Supporting all kinds of voting: ■ Token voting ■ 1P1V ■ Quadratic voting ■ Weighted voting ■ Multi-question and multi-choice ■ Encrypted results during voting phase ■ Delegated voting (soon) ... What makes Vocdoni special? ● Flexible census ○ Government eID ○ Token based ○ OAuth ○ User / Pass (+2FA) ● Scalable & fast ○ Up to 40,000 votes/minute ○ Almost instant tally ● Easy to use/integrate ● Customizable ● zkSNARK anonymity ● Interoperable Vocdoni Under the hood Vocdoni Featured use cases Òmnium Cultural Futbol Club Barcelona Ajuntament de Bellpuig 14Fruites ● Custom UX (vocdoni.app based) ● Internal census (BD -> Excel) ● Auth: User/Pass (2FA) ● Custom UX (vocdoni.app based) ● Blind CSP ● Auth: idCAT certificate Aragon DAO ● Voice UI ● EVM census ● Auth: With wallet Vocdoni Want to know more? Q&A Want to try? ● Docs ● Explorer ● API ● SDK ● vocdoni.app ● voice.aragon.org THANK YOU