Contest: Crowdsource Voting Audit Solutions for Latin American Elections
Contest dates:
November 9, 2020 – December 4, 2020 at 23:59 UTC. There will be a 24-hour countdown clock on the last day of possible entry.
Voting cycle:
15 days
The problem:
Auditing of Guatemala’s voting results have off-chain flaws that require a comprehensive on-chain solution. The authors of the current Guatemalan volunteer-based voting audit process have partners in other countries such as El Salvador, Ecuador, Honduras and several other Latin American countries where voting audits face similar problems. Those problems are based on an old system where paper is trusted (Acta#4, see link below) and pictures of this Acta#4 are given to volunteers on a flash drive, which means potential manipulation before this information is provided to volunteers. To combat this issue, Carlos Toriello Herrerias, a Guatemalan activist and blockchain enthusiast, as well as an avid proponent of blockchain technology, created an app to help mitigate this problem; however, it is still an imperfect system since the incoming information is potentially compromised. All of the details are described here.
The task:
Keeping in mind that no laws or actual voting processes can be easily changed, we need to come up with description of a solution using Free TON solve any possible vote count inconsistencies and remove the possibility of manipulation of the vote counting and auditing process, i.e., make vote counting and auditing infallible and to accelerate reporting of voting results information.
Available source of information is the above mentioned Acta#4. Before proceeding every contestant must first review the videos created by Fiscal Digital.
Requirements:
- If any submission is subject to proprietary ownership, the owner of such rights explicitly gives up such rights hereby in favor of this contest.
- Must be a solution that utilizes the Free TON blockchain.
- The description of the solution must be in absolute detail, complete with description of properties, characteristics, features, etc., so that implementation is easy to follow and execute including backend and frontend part.
- Come up with criteria to assess the quality of the solution.
- Description of methods and/or measures providing the ability to minimize the likelihood of vote count and auditing errors.
- The solution should be implemented within the current system without the need for any legislative intervention by the government.
Evaluation criteria:
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Solution should be decentralized, i.e. not dependent on any government body or political party
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Submission should describe possible attacks by election fraudsters and how a solution can resist it.
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The completeness and integrity of the information presented, the UI/UX of the solutions applied, the accuracy and reliability of the attached results all should be considered to be significant for choosing winners.
Voting:
- The juror must have a solid understanding of the described technology to provide a score and feedback. If not, the juror should choose to “Abstain”.
- Jurors or whose team(s) intend to participate in this contest by providing submissions lose their right to vote in this contest.
- Each juror will vote by rating each submission on a scale of 1 to 10 or can choose to reject it if it does not meet requirements or vote “Abstain” if they feel unqualified to judge.
- Jurors must provide feedback on submissions or lose their reward.
- The Jury will reject duplicate, sub-par, incomplete, or inappropriate submissions.
- The number of days for jury voting is hereby set at 15 days.
Rewards:
1st place .…………………………………. 30,000 Tons
2nd place ……………………………………. 27,000 Tons
3rd place ……………………….…………. 24,000 Tons
4th place ……………………………………21,000 Tons
5th place…………………………………….18,000 Tons
6th place…………………………………….15,000 Tons
7th place…………………………………….12,000 Tons
8th place…………………………………….9,000 Tons
9th place…………………………………….6,000 Tons
10th place ………………………………….3,000 Tons
Jury Rewards:
An amount equal to 5% of the total sum of all total tokens awarded to contest winners will be distributed among jurors who vote and provide feedback. This percentage will be awarded on the following basis:
- The percentage of tokens awarded to the jury will be distributed based on the number of votes each juror casts. For example, if one juror votes 50 times and another juror votes 5 times, the juror who votes 50 times will get 10 times more tokens than the juror who votes 5 times.
- Feedback is mandatory to collect any rewards.
Procedural requirements:
Accessibility. All submissions must be accessible for the jury to open and view, so please double-check your submission. If the submission is inaccessible or does not fit the criteria described, jurors may reject the submission.
Timing. Contestants must submit their work before the closing of the filing of applications. If not submitted on time, the submission will not count.
Content. Please submit in PDF format. If all or a portion of the original content cannot be in the form of a PDF, simply submit a PDF with links to that original content.
Contact. Each submission must have an identifiable contact that can be matched with your description. If you have not provided a forum description for discussion, then your application should contain links to your online persona, for example, a Telegram ID (preferred) or other direct contact information that can confirm that the submitted work is yours. In the absence of confirmation by the contestant of the authorship of the submitted work, the submission is rejected.
Multiple submissions.
- Each contestant has the right to provide several submissions if they are all different from one another. If they are too similar, or in any way appear to be partially the same work done twice, or if they appear to be one whole body of work divided into parts to create several submissions, jurors have the right to reject such submissions.
- If the contestant wants to make an additional submission to replace a previously published submission, the contestant must inform the jury about this fact and indicate which submission is the one to be judged. In this case, only the indicated work will count. If the contestant fails to indicate which submission to judge, only the first submission made will count. The Jury will reject all others.
Disclaimer:
Anyone can participate, but Free TON cannot distribute Tons to US citizens or US entities.