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devcon8 / municipal voting goes on chain encrypted verifiable elections for the real world

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Municipal Voting Goes On-Chain: Encrypted, Verifiable Elections for the Real World

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Speaker: Punit

Type: Lightning Talk

Expertise: Some familiarity with the topic

Event: Devcon

Date: Nov 2026

Encrypted voting is one of the few things Ethereum has real production experience with, thanks to DAOs. But DAO votes were always the rehearsal. Together with the City of Munich and Universität der Bundeswehr München, we've taken the same tech into a real election: legal ballot secrecy rules, an official election board, and voters who have never heard of a wallet. The system uses threshold encryption: the election key is split across a committee, so no single party can decrypt anything alone, and only the final tally is ever opened, never an individual ballot. It's also a test of what Ethereum has committed to under the CROPS banner: censorship resistance, open source, privacy and security are exactly what an election demands, not as ideals but as legal requirements. I'll explain how the system works, how anyone can recount the result, what institutions actually care about, and where the tech still falls short. If we're right about this, voting gets easier to access everywhere.

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