Weighted and tiered voting
One member one vote, share-weighted or tier-weighted. The weights are part of the published roll.
CONSORTIUM VOTEFOR ORGANIZATIONS THAT DECIDE TOGETHER
CONFIDENTIAL INPUTS.
ACCOUNTABLE OUTCOMES.A private vote.
ACCOUNTABLE OUTCOMES.
A private vote.
A shared decision.
Give members room to vote honestly — and a result they can verify. Clear eligibility, confidential ballots, and independently attested tallies.
Understand the voteBALLOTS STAY CONFIDENTIAL
Individual choicesNot disclosed to members
Authorized independent auditors can access sealed ballots and count them. The wider membership sees the attested result.
TRY THE AUDITOR THRESHOLD2/ 3 required
Select one more auditor to meet the example threshold.
Illustrative auditor agreement. The full result policy also requires the secretariat.
Result policy
No single party announces the result.
The rule for accepting a result is published before voting opens. Validators accept the tally only if it carries exactly the attestations the policy demands.
- The secretariat must confirm the vote was run under the published rules.
- At least three of five independent auditing firms must attest the same tally.
policy: publish_result v1
- And
- Secretariat
- OutOf 3
- Audit Firm A
- Audit Firm B
- Audit Firm C
- Audit Firm D
- Audit Firm E
How it works
Public rules. Sealed ballots. Threshold count.
Publish the vote
The secretariat commits the question, options, voter roll, voting weights and auditor policy to the ledger. Everyone can check the rules before voting starts.
Cast a sealed ballot
Each member's choice is encrypted for the auditors' private collection. The ledger records that an eligible member voted once, and the member gets a receipt.
Close on the ledger
The vote closes at an agreed ledger height or by an attested close action, never by one server's clock. Late ballots are rejected by every node the same way.
Count independently
Each auditing organization runs the same deterministic count. The result is accepted only when enough auditors attest to an identical tally.
Keep the record
The result, the attestations and the rules stay on the ledger permanently, available for later challenges or audits under the network’s retention and governance rules.
Who sees what
Transparent process. Confidential choices.
Collection membership and attestation metadata are visible. Private payload access depends on the organizations declared in each collection.
| Information | Members | Secretariat | Auditors | Validators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rules, roll and weights | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Individual ballot choices | Own ballot only | No | Yes, sealed collection | No |
| Receipt that a ballot was recorded | Own receipt | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Final tally | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Which auditors attested the tally | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The problem
Most votes ask members to trust whoever counts.
Online voting tools usually mean one vendor holds every ballot and announces the result. Paper and show-of-hands voting are slow, exclusionary and easy to dispute.
A single point of trust
When one provider stores the ballots and runs the count, members must take the result on faith.
Open voting chills honesty
When members can see how others voted, smaller organizations follow the powerful ones instead of voting their interest.
Eligibility disputes
Who could vote, with what weight and through which proxy is often argued about after the result is announced.
No lasting record
Years later, proving how a resolution passed depends on minutes and spreadsheets that may no longer exist.
Features
Governance tools members can believe.
Agreed eligibility
The voter roll is committed before opening, so eligibility disputes are settled before a single ballot is cast.
One ballot per member
The ledger rejects a second ballot from the same member, on every node, in the same way.
Independent count
OutOf policies make the result depend on several auditors agreeing, not one.
Recorded delegation
Proxy appointments are attested events, so who voted on whose behalf is never in doubt.
Verifiable decision records
Rules, participation and results remain verifiable for as long as the network runs.
Who it is for
Any group that decides together.
Industry association
Credible votes on standards, budgets and leadership.
Co-operative board
Member-owned governance with a permanent, auditable record.
Company secretary
Shareholder resolutions with recorded weights and delegations.
Questions
What members ask first.
Can the auditors see how I voted?
The auditing organizations hold the sealed ballots so they can count them, much like scrutineers in a paper election. Choose auditors independent of each other. ConsortiumVote makes sure none of them can decide the result alone.
What stops auditors from colluding?
The public policy requires several independent firms to attest an identical tally. This distributes trust, but cannot eliminate collusion if the required parties cooperate dishonestly. Your consortium chooses the auditors, threshold and governance rules.
Can the organizer change the rules mid-vote?
No. The question, roll, weights and policies are committed before the vote opens. Changing them would mean publishing a new vote, which every member would see.
How do I know my ballot was counted?
You receive a receipt when your ballot is recorded, and the ledger shows it was included before the vote closed. The tally is an attested claim by the required auditors; the receipt verifies that your ballot was recorded before closing.
Is ConsortiumVote suitable for public elections?
No. It is designed for organizational governance such as associations, co-operatives, boards and shareholder meetings, where the voter roll and auditors are known organizations.
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