Online Voting System

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About the technology

Why the Need to Invent Better

In the present day, it is difficult to make the case that legacy methods for voting are adequately serving those three expectations. Invent Better is the principle that drives every innovation at Skypunch. The result is not simply an online version of a paper ballot or voting booth, but revolutionary technology, purpose-built for elections, to deliver new solutions to the three core challenges listed above. Those solutions introduce a whole new level of transparency. And transparency leads to trust.

The Ledger

Skypunch Technology has created the world’s first cryptographically verifiable online voting system. Lying at the heart of the solution is an immutable digital ledger that provides bona fide ballot verification and election certification. This permits:

  1. Voters to return to the website at any time after having voted to submit a ballot verification code and confirm, cryptographically, that their ballot is unaltered.
  2. Election managers to run a similar verification process across a batch of ballots to cryptographically verifiy all ballots in a batch of ballots are true.

Do not be fooled into believing all verification is the same. This is not simply a seal or an attestation issued at the conclusion of an election that all appeared to proceed normally. Nor is it simply verification that an individual ballot is confirmed to be stored in a system. Rather, it is the result of having the ability to cryptographically audit the history of each ballot to be certain nothing was altered in any way after being committed to the system by voters.

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The Architecture

The system is fully hosted inside Amazon Web Services (AWS), widely regarded as the world’s leading cloud hosting provider. While the exact architecture is proprietary, it is built around the concepts of the Six Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework to ensure a very highly performant, secure and reliable system.

Cybersecurity

For more about the cybersecurity activities taking place at Skpunch, please visit the cybersecurity page.