Introduction

Algorand Message Standard for public voting

Summary

This document introduces the standard for public voting participation and calculation of voting results.

Abstract

The goal of this standard is to make the knowledge based pure democracy reality. This standard defines specification on how organization can propose voting, how organization can create trusted list of voters, how person can cast votes and how person can delegate other persons to vote on his behalf.

The goal of these conventions is to make any organization who seeks public voting the standard on how to vote.

Even if this standard is meant to be for algorand for the effeciency of the transactions and low transaction costs, it is not limitted to this blockchain. It can be used with any blockchain who support self transactions with specific payment, note field with at least 1000 bytes long message, and ability to search the network for specific transactions indexed by the amount, start of the note field, and/or the account.

Specification

The key words “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, “REQUIRED”, “SHALL”, “SHALL NOT”, “SHOULD”, “SHOULD NOT”, “RECOMMENDED”, “MAY”, and “OPTIONAL” in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC-2119.