Future
This is the Election Integrity "Voting Holon"
Plans:
- Paper Ballet Voting Secured
- Voting Machines: For states that won't move to only Paper ballets. It prints out a way for the citizen to verify their vote on the blockchain later. Ways to make sure only qualified US citizens vote (and only once).
Secure Voting System Proposal — VotingHolon Project
Introduction
The work of both contributors in this field is invaluable. As a serial startup CTO and CEO founder, I am committed to building a voting system that permanently locks out election fraud. The objective is to design a verifiable, transparent, and tamper-resistant election infrastructure leveraging blockchain and cryptography.
All progress and concepts are being gradually published at https://votingholon.com.
Currently, this website contains about 3% of the overall plan. The ideas below are a deeper look into what’s coming next.
Design Goals and Approach
Some U.S. states will continue to allow mail-in ballots, while others may adopt in-person only voting.
This system is designed to handle both models simultaneously with high integrity and full auditability.
a) Open Source Software and Blockchain Architecture
- The entire software platform will be open source, ensuring public auditability and security transparency.
- Private voter data (PII) is stored securely in a private government database.
- The non-PII portions — such as anonymized ballot and voter roll activity — are stored on the blockchain for verifiable public transparency.
Voting Rolls and Accountability
b) State Election Office Integration
- The voter rolls used by each state election office are directly integrated into the system.
- Personally identifiable information (PII) remains in a private, permissioned database.
- Non-PII data — such as voter status, eligibility verification logs, and record timestamps — are written immutably to the blockchain.
c) Government Employee Logging and Traceability
- The system logs which government employee adds or modifies an entry in the voter rolls.
- It is a criminal act to register non-eligible voters.
- The blockchain ledger creates a provable, immutable record of who performed each voter entry action.
- Since blockchain history cannot be deleted, any attempt at fraud becomes traceable to the individual responsible.
Voting Process: In-Person Ballots
d) Ballot Privacy and Blockchain Verification
- For in-person voting, each ballot would come with a paper identifier that prints out when the ballot is opened.
- This paper allows the voter to privately identify their specific ballot on the blockchain without revealing who they voted for.
- A secure web application UI provides an intuitive interface for voters to verify their ballot’s presence on the blockchain.
e) Cryptographic Privacy Layer
- Public-private key cryptography secures privacy.
- The design ensures that no government entity can ever determine which candidate a voter selected.
- Voter identity and vote choice remain mathematically unlinkable.
f) Ballot Scanning and Post-Vote Verification
- When voters exit the booth, their ballot is scanned immediately.
- The voter receives a “Paper QR Code Private Key” to take home.
- Later, they can verify online that their vote was correctly recorded for the intended candidates by scanning this private QR key.
- This process allows independent verification without revealing any voter’s identity.
g) Real-Time Polling Location Metrics
- Each voting location uploads data to the blockchain showing:
- Number of voters per hour
- Total ballots cast
- System activity logs and tallies
- This provides real-time transparency into voting activity while preserving ballot secrecy.
h) Cryptographic Protection Against Vote Linking
- Even though each ballot entry is public on the blockchain, it is cryptographically impossible to determine voter preference.
- The system uses a combination of:
- Homomorphic Encryption (HE) — allowing mathematical operations on encrypted votes without decryption.
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) — ensuring verification of validity without revealing vote contents.
- Together, these create verifiable transparency with absolute privacy.
Voting Process: Mail-In Ballots
i) Secure Ballot Minting and Tracking
- For states that allow mail-in ballots, the system provides a cryptographically verifiable “minting” process.
- Ballots are produced in secure batches, e.g., boxes of 300 ballots per batch.
- Each ballot within the batch is assigned a unique public key, represented as a QR code.
- When ballots are sent out, each QR-coded ballot’s public key is scanned and linked to the specific voter record (in the private database) it was mailed to.
- This linkage — voter ID (privately held) ↔ ballot public key (publicly tracked) — is recorded on the blockchain.
- This ensures every mailed ballot can be accounted for from printing to delivery to return — eliminating the possibility of ghost or duplicate ballots.
Summary of System Guarantees
| Feature | Function | Blockchain Role | Privacy Guarantee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voter Roll Logs | Tracks who adds voters | Immutable log | Government staff accountability |
| In-Person Ballots | On-site scanning + QR receipt | Real-time blockchain entry | Anonymous tracking via cryptographic keys |
| Mail-In Ballots | Boxed “minted” ballots with unique keys | Verifiable issue and tracking | Only linkage of issuance, not vote choice |
| Vote Privacy | Cryptography layer (HE + ZKP) | Validates correctness | No vote-to-voter linkage possible |
| Auditability | Open-source + blockchain data | Public validation | Transparent yet privacy-preserving |
Conclusion
This framework establishes a next-generation election integrity platform that:
- Uses blockchain immutability to make voter roll changes and ballot counts fully auditable,
- Leverages cryptography to separate identity from vote,
- Supports both in-person and mail-in voting, and
- Operates under open-source transparency.
Together, these elements create a verifiable, fraud-resistant voting system that citizens, officials, and independent auditors alike can trust.
Future publications on VotingHolon.com will expand on this foundation — including user interface design, API specifications, and deeper cryptographic protocol design.
(VotingHolon.com coming soon)
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Posted: (Oct 2025)