Agora

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Ágora Ciudadana is an innovative free software project started by Partido de Internet (PDI) whose aim is to create a secure and scalable voting system with vote delegation support that can be used in a liquid democracy setup, where representatives act as mere proxy voters, voting in the representative chambers accordingly to what citizens previously voted over Internet.

Ágora aims to provide comparable security to traditional votings. The vote is secret and the secrecy of the vote lies in a set of authorities, it uses ElGamal and rencryption mixnets for anonymizing the casted votes.

Given that in Spanish congress there are about 6600 votings a year or an average of 1 voting per hour, and there were 35 million electors in last general elections, Ágora needs to be massively scalable to be able to handle this torrent of votes (up to 35M per hour on average if PDI succeeds). We have chosen Verificatum as the backend library to process the votings, and are presently working in parallel to make it more scalable and implementing the frontend of Agora.

Ágora Ciudadana is currently an unfunded project, and its developers and collaborators work on it pro-bono. If you want to support us please feel free to contact us.