I’ve always been skeptical of anonymous voting. That is to say, I don’t believe it works in general. Sure, there are great solutions with things like Helios voting, but at the end of the day it’s the ballot distribution that matters. That problem can’t be solved in the general case but when the voters can be enumerated and validated, anonymous voting can make sense. But failure to deliver ballot vs. chose not to vote are not distinguishable…
What can you do with Monero style ring signatures for Nostr ?
You can build an Anonymous Voting platform using Nostr identities to vote.
Thanks to the Back's Linkable Spontaneous Anonymous Group, you can detect double voting without leaking identities.
Check Ringable demo 👇
A client-side anonymous voting platform using Nostr-compatible ring signatures.
Ringable allows users to create proposals and vote anonymously as part of a predefined group (a "ring" of public keys). It leverages the cryptographic power of bLSAG ring signatures to ensure that while votes are verified as coming from a valid member of the ring, the specific voter's identity remains hidden.
The cryptographic functions are powered by the Nostringer Rust library, compiled to WebAssembly (WASM) for use in the browser.
Live demo: https://ringable.starknetonbitcoin.com
Ringable rep: https://github.com/AbdelStark/ringable
Nostringer: https://github.com/AbdelStark/nostringer-rs
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