The voting systems within Canuckduck are designed to facilitate fair, transparent, and inclusive decision-making across a wide range of issues. They prioritize user anonymity, data security, and the accurate representation of community preferences. Each vote follows a structured process that balances user input with technical safeguards to ensure integrity.
**1. Key Features of Canuckduck Voting
- Ranked-Choice Voting: Users can rank solutions or options in order of preference. This method promotes consensus by allowing voters to support multiple options while indicating their priorities.
- Threshold Voting: Issues or solutions must achieve a minimum approval threshold (e.g., 60%) to be considered resolved. This ensures strong community support for decisions.
- Dynamic Voting Updates: Users can modify their votes during the active voting period, allowing decisions to reflect evolving opinions or newly presented information.
- Conviction Voting: Incorporates metrics to track how long users maintain a specific voting position, giving weight to sustained commitments.
2. Process and Transparency
- Voting IDs: Each voter is assigned an anonymous voting ID to protect identity while ensuring votes are tied to unique participants.
- Vote Verification: Voters receive a unique receipt or code to verify their vote was counted and included in the final tally.
- Blockchain Integration: Final vote results are recorded on Hedera Hashgraph, ensuring immutability and transparency without exposing individual votes.
3. Voting Stages
- Pre-Vote Preparation:
- Issues are refined and solutions are developed in Pond and Flightplan.
- Supporting documentation and data are linked for voter review.
- Active Voting:
- Users access Consensus to cast their votes.
- Preferences (e.g., ranked choices) are logged but can be updated until the voting period closes.
- Post-Vote Actions:
- Results are calculated and publicly displayed, ensuring transparency.
- Solutions meeting the threshold proceed to implementation, while unresolved issues return to Flightplan for refinement.
4. Security and Privacy
- Data Anonymization: Voting data is aggregated and stripped of personal identifiers.
- Regional Aggregation: Voting results are displayed by region to show impact without compromising voter privacy.
- Access Controls: Only verified users can vote, ensuring that participants meet eligibility requirements.
5. Inclusivity and Scalability
- Youth Perspectives: Contributions from Ducklings (the youth engagement platform) are visible in Consensus when a significant consensus is reached within the youth community.
- Scale Factor: Issues are categorized as local, municipal, provincial, or federal based on user input and validation.