GBA Voting Working Group
Unleash the Power of Your Voice with the GBA Voting Working Group!
Join our dynamic team as we dive into the world of secure and efficient voting systems. We’re all about innovation and transparency. Our mission is to explore and harness the potential of blockchain technology in voting, making the process more secure, accessible, and efficient. Here, we don’t just study and create informative materials; we’re building the future of voting. From white papers to dynamic presentations, our work is at the forefront of revolutionizing how we make our voices heard.
Ready to be part of the change? Join us in shaping a brighter, more democratic future today!
Publications
The Voting Working Group has and continues to develop a set of documents intent on driving the adoption of blockchain enabled voting systems. They include:
Working Group Events
Voting Group Events
Real World Applications
We at Voatz believe voting should be convenient, secure, accessible, auditable, and transparent. Voatz has completed over 90 elections in the US and abroad. For jurisdictions that permit electronic remote voting, election officials invite registered voters to download the Voatz’ app on their device. The eligible voter then creates an account using their mobile number and email, followed by a secure process to verify their identity. The voter then receives their mobile ballot, and uses their device to privately and accessibly mark and review their choices. When their ballot is cast, it is recorded anonymously and immutably on the Voatz blockchain.
DeVote uses zk-SNARKs package developed by =nil; Foundation team: it is based on special voting protocol SAVER – SNARK-friendly, Additively-homomorphic, and Verifiable Encryption and decryption with Rerandomization protocol (published in 2019). In its turn it employs Groth16 – the most efficient zero knowledge proof system with minimal proof size and respectively minimal on-chain processing costs. DeVote solution is multichain, with true anonymity of voting and perfect auditability of results. DeVote technology allows to serve elections without requiring voters to install/use any crypto wallets, although all voting data is stored on-chain. Additional features required by public voting standards (on-chain eligible voters lists, auditor and observer controlling tools etc) are under development.
DeVote uses zk-SNARKs package developed by =nil; Foundation team: it is based on special voting protocol SAVER – SNARK-friendly, Additively-homomorphic, and Verifiable Encryption and decryption with Rerandomization protocol (published in 2019). In its turn it employs Groth16 – the most efficient zero knowledge proof system with minimal proof size and respectively minimal on-chain processing costs. DeVote solution is multichain, with true anonymity of voting and perfect auditability of results. DeVote technology allows to serve elections without requiring voters to install/use any crypto wallets, although all voting data is stored on-chain. Additional features required by public voting standards (on-chain eligible voters lists, auditor and observer controlling tools etc) are under development.
Meet The Experts
GBA members have deep experience and knowledge regarding the legal, regulatory, political, and technical issues related to blcockcahin and elections. They are availalble as paid consultants or industry experts.
Consultants
The following individuals are available for hire to provide consultancy for organizations implementing blockchain voting.
Philip Andreae
My goal is to help Voatz succeed and to enable our ability, as members of a democratic society, to vote from anywhere using our secure mobile devices.
Susan Eustis
Susan is a senior analyst at WInterGreen Research with several studies re: Blockchain. The author follows technology, business innovation, and change management. 800 published studies from WinterGreen Research document market share and market forecasts in robots, healthcare, artificial intelligence, software, and sports markets.
Adam Ernest
At his core, Adam is a visionary and a protagonist with a powerful imagination and a deep desire to leverage blockchain technology to make this world a better place for all of the beings of this planet.
Eugene Morozov
Everscale Blockchain Network 05/2020 – Current Everscale.Academy Founder DeFi Alliance Member Vice-President, TON Labs, Switzerland Everscale is currently the fastest in the world 5th generation end-to-end decentralised blockchain network with 64000 transactions per second over open internet, low cost and sub-second network finality. TON Labs (Switzerland) is the Chief Architect and core contributor of the network infrastructure. Recently rebranded from Free TON to Everscale, its native token Ever is traded on 12 exchanges globally Everscale.Academy founded to onboard users through education contributing to half a million user base.
Industry Experts
The following individuals are available for public speaking engagements, interviews and related knowledge transfers for the public good.
Currently using blockchain technology for voting and marriage licenses and working to pass legislation to establish Utah as the premier destination for blockchain.
Linda is Voatz’ Director of Quality Assurance and Compliance and a Certified Blockchain Maturity Model Assessor. She brings thirty years of experience leading quality engineering teams in high growth companies, specializing in regulated or mission critical industries. At Voatz, she leads testing and compliance for mobile voting successfully used in over 120 elections in the US and abroad. Before joining Voatz, she was responsible for Clear Ballot’s ClearVote voting system achieving its first federal certification. Prior to her GovTech experience, Linda held QA Architect or management roles at IBM, Kenexa, Brassring and Lotus ensuring that their products met the quality, security, scalability, compliance and accessibility requirements of Enterprise clients.
Videos
Remote Ballot Marking & Return Comparison
The GBA assembled industry experts to debate the security of remote digital voting at an event called Blockchain & Voting. Consequently, the participants agreed to draft a report comparing the functional and security considerations of available remote ballot return methods. The report can be downloaded at Remote Election Technology Report
BMM Voting Supplement
The GBA Voting Working Group has developed a supplement to the Blockchain Maturity Model (BMM) for each phase of the voting lifecycle. The BMM Voting Supplement has been released, is being used to assess voting solutions that are published on an a directory of GBA Trusted Blockchain Solutions and also showcased by the UN IGF Dynamic Coalition on Blockchain Assurance & Standardization.
EAC Recommendations
In the United States, American election officials typically trust election systems certified by a certified Voting System Test Laboratories (VSTL) in accordance with the Election Assistance Commission’s (EAC) Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines (VVSG).
The current and past versions of VVSG do not support the use of internet connected devices. This makes it impossible to support citizens or our military serving abroad, nor people with disabilities unable to attend a voting place or use the available ballot marking device. In order to assure every citizen the ability to vote, election officials would prefer VVSG be updated to support the certification of Remote Accessible Ballot Marking and Return solutions.
To this end the GBA Voring Working Group submitted recommendations to the EAC to modernize the guidelines.
Download the VVSG Supplement for Remote Accessible Ballot Delivery Marking & Return (RABDMR) report. These recommendations have been submitted to the EAC and are scheduled to be reviewed by the Technical Working Group.
Join The Team!
The GBA Working Group has people from around the world with an interest in and capabilities related to blockchain & voting. See the full list of members on the GBA Voting Working Group Page