- 11chooses.com : Official election website
- 11.siv.org/plan : Election plan & vote-related info
- utahforwardparty.org : Dedicated local organizers
- electionscience.org : Approval voting
More links:
- Results: you can see all the anonymized votes here: siv.org/election/1764187291234
- And the digital ballot: 11.siv.org/preview
Voter-verifiable results: voters can personally confirm their vote is correctly recorded in the results. Auditors can test against ballot stuffing or fake voters.
Cryptographic privacy: 4-of-4 multiparty key + cryptographic shuffle to anonymize votes before they were tallied.
Used Approval Voting: "Vote for *all* the options you approve of" - a spoiler-free, non-polarizing voting method (innovates upon RCV). On top of everything else, this alone is a serious historic win, as its first time being used to elect a state-level American government office.
98% digital: Anyone could opt to vote in-person with paper, but only 1-out-of-50 chose to.
70k eligible voters: Every registered voter in the jurisdiction received mailed invitations with unique Voter Codes to auth themselves: could scan QR or visit website & type in code. + Provisional backup auth methods.
We just ran a vote for what is, afaik, the first American elected office decided majority-digital, open to all citizens.
Results just announced: utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/12/12/utahs-forward-partys-first-of-its-kind-preference-poll-picks-a-winner-to-replace-sen-thatcher/
Interesting highlights ⬇️
We've been exploring DKG designs that can recover from these sorts of errors better too:
docs.siv.org/research-in-...
( originally inspired by Helios! 🙌 )
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