To vote on a road planning decision, a city in France is employing the Tezos blockchain technology. Between the 1st and 8th of October, voters can cast their ballots. The vote is an interesting example of how blockchain technology may be used when it comes to voting and democracy.
The Avosvotes program, which is based on the Tezos blockchain, allows residents of Verneuil-sur-Seine in Yvelines, France, to vote on a 60-year-old road project. Between October 1 and October 8, 2020, there will be a voting period.
It’s been 60 years since this vote was held. Vernouillet and Verneuil-sur-Seine communes will be crossed by the proposed route, RD 154. After decades of preparation and debate, it’s now time to vote via the Tezos blockchain on this initiative. This has the ability to change the entire vision of France’s Yvelines area.
According to Florian Ribiere, CEO of Avosvotes, French researchers at Tezos developed the decentralized and secure voting proof on the blockchain. It will allow Verneuil-sur-Seine to ensure the sincerity of the ballot.
Avosvotes, a blockchain-based application powered by Tezos, will be used by voters to make their judgments. Individuals’ identities are personally confirmed when voting on the proposal, and a certificate recorded on the Tezos blockchain serves as proof of each vote. As stated by Florian Ribiere, CEO of Avosvotes, anyone interested can also follow along and track voting participation in real time.ballot.
At both the municipal and national levels, election fraud and low voter turnout have long been barriers to democracy participation. Overcoming problems are with the use of blockchain technology. The vote will be 100% secure, according to Ribiere, and each voter will see if their vote counts during the digital count.
The Voting and Amendment Process
The economic protocol can change on the Tezos blockchain. There is an on-chain mechanism that allows users to submit changes to the economic protocol, vote for or against them. After this, it will activate or deactivate them based on the outcome of the vote.
It’s worth noting that the economic protocol itself includes the proposal, voting, and activation phases. As a result, the regulations governing amendments are open to change.
Periods
There are five phases to the amendment procedure. The periods usually run concurrently for around two and a half months, after which the full process of amendments restart.
Proposal period
Delegates can use the same Proposals procedure to submit protocol, modification proposals, and upvote one or more proposals during the proposal period. Each delegate can submit a maximum of 20 ideas. This total includes duplicates.
A choice of the plan with the highest support at the end of the proposal phase, and then the exploration period begins. It’s worth noting that the total number of delegates who voted in favor of the proposition counts as support.
The procedure goes back to a new proposal period if there are no proposals or a tie between two or more proposals.
Exploration Period
Delegates can vote on the selected proposal in one of three ways during this time: yes, no, or yes. The Ballot operation used to do this.
The process goes to the cooling period if the voting participation reaches quorum and there is a super-majority of Yay. Otherwise, the procedure reverts to the first proposal phase.
Cooldown period
During this time, nothing specific happens on the chain. Delegates can study the proposal more closely off-chain, the community can discuss the proposal’s finer points, developers can run more tests, and so on. The process moves to the promotion period at the end of this term.
Promotion Period
Delegates can use the Ballot procedure to cast a Yay, Nay, or Pass ballot during this time. The process moves to the adoption period if the voting participation reaches a quorum and there is a super-majority of Yay.
Adoption Period
During this time, nothing happens on the chain, with the exception of the very final block
Others (bakers, indexers, etc.) update their infrastructure to support the newly released tools on the off-chain; smart-contract developers start working with soon-to-be-available features, and so on and so on and so on and so forth.
The proposal triggers at the very end of the time. This means that the present economic protocol still applies to the period’s last block, while the new economic protocol applies to the period’s first block (the one that voted in).
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