yobson / democracy

A project for hosting online elections

Democracy

Democracy is a web application for creating and hosting online votes that follow different election systems (depending on what you are voting for). The idea is to add a little integrity to voting done in small organisations, even if the stakes are low!

Installing

I will, when finished, provide and support:

• RPMs (for openSUSE/SUSE #FuckRedHat)
• debs (For debian stable and oldstable)
• openBSD package

For those running on an unsupported system, I will provide:

• AppImage

But really you should build it from source because I'm not going to fix appimage issues.

Building From source

You need to have sqlite or prostgres, cabal and ghc installed. This is currently only tested with ghc-9.2.8. The easiest way to get cabal and ghc is with ghcup.

Then all you have to do is open a terminal and naviagte to the source code and type:

cabal -O2 build
cabal -O2 install

Running

If you have installed it, then simply start the service!

Linux (systemd)

openBSD (rcctl)

Running from source

If you are running from source, simple run:

./democracy

You probably want to setup some kind of service to do this for you, but I'll leave that to you.

Configuring

Not implemented yet!

TODO:

• Welcome Page
• Database backend
• Secure password storage
• Login system with Email
• Proper authentification with servant
• Simple Votes
• Election results page
• Edit some settings during votes
• Password Change
• Multiple people votes
• First past the post
• Single Transferable
• Postgres backend
• TOML Config
  • Switch DB backend based on conf
• Pledge and unveil for openBSD
• Password protected votes
• Email code protected votes
• Login based protected votes

Very extended TODO list

• Multiserver mode with signing roles
• Ring Signatures
• GPG plugged desktop app