The Free TON community is conducting an open contest to develop a system for auditing elections at various levels. In the longer term, the system will be used to verify elections in Guatemala.
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Entries will be accepted until July 14. To participate, you need only a Free TON blockchain address.
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Judges will evaluate submissions according to the following criteria:
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- accessibility through the DeBot interface;
- scalability.
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The project taking first place will receive 200,000 TON Crystal (TON), second place 150,000 TON, and third place 100,000 TON.
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Proposed solutions must meet the architecture requirements drawn from the winning submission of the previous contest.
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The aim of the contest, which concluded in December last year, was to develop a specification for an election audit system. The author of the first-place submission proposed issuing in the auditing app a so-called ‘Token of Democracy’, intended to serve as an incentive and regulator in the course of each election.
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The author proposed dividing the system into two stages — data entry and verification.
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In the first stage, participants acting as \”collators\” register in the system. Each receives a set amount of ‘Token of Democracy’ on their account and then inputs election results into the blockchain application, using public or private sources.
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If verification at the next stage shows the entered information to be correct, the coins are unlocked. ‘Collators’ can be independent experts — for example, observers.
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The auditing system must be decentralized. The entered data, based on a BFT algorithm, are checked by other participants — validators who use their stakes for this purpose. They verify photographs and documents, including copies of protocols with the results of voting at individual polling stations.
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Documents are uploaded to the app by representatives of government authorities as well as ‘collators’. Data from different sources may not align, so validators’ task is to determine the correct data.
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To further verify validators’ integrity, a mechanism of ‘fake protocols’ is proposed: the system automatically generates documents with incorrect data and sends them to validators for verification. The validator who confirms the fake document’s correctness receives penalties that reduce their stake.
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Consensus is reached via validator voting in several rounds. In each round, validators must vote for correct data with at least 66% of the total stake. A validator with a good reputation will have a weightier vote than those who made errors in verification.
Earlier, the Free TON blockchain integrated into the HumanVenture donation platform.
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