Awaken is a non-profit long term project to build peer to peer software infrastructure to enable voting in national elections and bills in the house. The hope is that projects like this can speed up work on a new constitution for our country. One that respects the rights of indigenous peoples and all people to live in peace. One that also respects nature and science, as well as the economy, during this pivotal time in history as we struggle to develop economic scientific models of sustainability over endless growth of privately held wealth.
Project sponsored by Tom Atkinson director of Tomachi Corporation in Auckland who is reachable on tom@awaken.guru and 021 257 6422
Goals:
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- Realtime vote counts
- Private AND verifiable (thanks to cryptography)
- Increased voter turnout and participation
- Fraud-proof international quality government elections
- Fast feedback public polling and sentiment gathering
- Open-source peer to peer electronic voting platform
- Designed for New Zealand, aimed at fixing the issues in USA
- User can choose if her vote is cast immediately or at random time delay
- The voters receipt contains their timestamps, rank order, before/after totals
- Revokable votes that can be changed up to 7 times
- Use of RealMe.govt.nz Government-backed identity system
- Allow demo and non-citizen voting via Google and Facebook to gauge public opinion
- Indestructibly publish votes into a public blockchain peer to peer network
- Recently our director Tom decided Cardano is likely to be the ideal platform, as it is capable of working in a cross-chain compatible manner and can work with private chains like Quorum, or public Ethereum, see our Software to be used
- Allows our government to publish a cryptographic fingerprint to sign the authenticity of the election in blocks of votes spread across time, but still enable visibility on:
- size of the enrolment and turnout by polling booth
- voting preferences by candidate and party by polling booth
- each polling booth has unique keys held at Elections Commission perhaps
- Protect privacy by cryptographically scrambling citizens IDs and votes yet maintain audit trail
- Allow all citizens of earth to also login and cast non-acting indicative votes
- Allow login via oAuth providers such as Google and Facebook to facilitate rapid take-up during launch
- System to mirror Parliament and Legislation websites and enable public voting on past and future laws
- To develop a constitution for NZ that includes human rights
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Phase 1: Perpetual Election Polling System
Phase 2: Mirror parliaments legislation
Phase 3: Enabling Legislation
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Open Source Code
For source code github repo details etc, check out the app demo page
Technology used:
- WordPress for this content site
- NodeJS and Meteor for voting system, with Mongo DB, Blaze templates
- Two factor enabled RealMe accounts
- Linux based servers but portable to other platforms due to use of Node
- Github for hosting the code
Recent Bills Parliament Feed
| Title | Document type | Date |
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Ngāruahine Claims Settlement Bill (45-2)as reported by the Māori Affairs Committee |
Bill – SC report | 23 Mar 2016 |
Geographical Indications (Wine and Spirits) Registration Amendment Bill |
Bill – government | 21 Mar 2016 |
Taxation (Residential Land Withholding Tax, GST on Online Services, and Student Loans) Bill (93-2)as reported by the Finance and Expenditure Committee |
Bill – SC report | 21 Mar 2016 |
Taxation (Transformation: First Phase Simplification and Other Measures) Bill (41-2)as reported by the Finance and Expenditure Committee |
Bill – SC report | 21 Mar 2016 |
Wages Protection Amendment Bill |
Bill – government | 18 Mar 2016 |
Minimum Wage Amendment Bill |
Bill – government | 18 Mar 2016 |
Holidays Amendment Bill |
Bill – government | 18 Mar 2016 |
Employment Relations Amendment Bill (No 3) |
Bill – government | 18 Mar 2016 |
Parental Leave and Employment Protection Amendment Bill |
Bill – government | 18 Mar 2016 |
Employment Standards Legislation Bill |
Bill – government | 18 Mar 2016 |
Taranaki Iwi Claims Settlement Bill |
Bill – government | 18 Mar 2016 |
Rangitāne o Manawatu Claims Settlement Bill |
Bill – government | 18 Mar 2016 |
Te Atiawa Claims Settlement Bill |
Bill – government | 18 Mar 2016 |
Land Transfer Bill |
Bill – government | 18 Mar 2016 |
Riccarton Racecourse Bill 2015 (2016 No 78-2): Bills Digest No 2334 |
Bills Digest | 17 Mar 2016 |
Greater Christchurch Regeneration Bill |
Bill – government | 17 Mar 2016 |
Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary Bill |
Bill – government | 17 Mar 2016 |
Social Security Legislation Rewrite Bill |
Bill – government | 17 Mar 2016 |
Final Order Paper for Thursday, 17 March 2016 |
Order Paper | 17 Mar 2016 |
Social Security (Stopping Benefits ) Amendment Bill 2015 (Member’s Bill): Bills Digest No 2332 |
Bills Digest | 16 Mar 2016 |
Environmental Protection Authority (Protection of Environment) Amendment Bill |
Bill – member’s | 16 Mar 2016 |
List of drafting changes in revision-tracked version IRD 19159/12.0Taxation (Transformation: First Phase Simplification and Other Measures) Bill |
Bill – SC advice | 16 Mar 2016 |
List of drafting changes in revision-tracked version IRD 19464/20.0Taxation (Residential Land Withholding Tax, GST on Online Services, and Student Loans) Bill |
Bill – SC advice | 16 Mar 2016 |
Christian Churches New Zealand Property Trust Board Empowering Bill |
Bill – private | 16 Mar 2016 |
Wellington Town Belt Bill |
Bill – local | 16 Mar 2016 |
Local Government (Auckland Council) Amendment Bill (No 3) |
Bill – member’s | 16 Mar 2016 |
Substance Addiction (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Bill |
Bill – government | 16 Mar 2016 |
Final Order Paper for Wednesday, 16 March 2016 |
Order Paper | 16 Mar 2016 |
Substance Addiction (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Bill 2015: Bills Digest No 2331 |
Bills Digest | 15 Mar 2016 |
Weathertight Homes Resolution Services Amendment Bill |
Bill – government | 15 Mar 2016 |
Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Display of Low-alcohol Beverages and Other Remedial Matters) Amendment Bill |
Bill – government | 15 Mar 2016 |
Māori Purposes Bill (44-2)as reported by the Māori Affairs Committee |
Bill – SC report | 15 Mar 2016 |
Final Order Paper for Tuesday, 15 March 2016 |
Order Paper | 15 Mar 2016 |
Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary Bill 2016: Bills Digest No 2329 |
Bills Digest | 14 Mar 2016 |
Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Register) Bill (16-2) and the Report of the Attorney-General on the Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Register) Billas reported by the Social Services Committee |
Bill – SC report | 14 Mar 2016 |
Wellington Town Belt Bill 2015 (2016 No 43-2) (Local Bill): Bills Digest No 2328 |
Bills Digest | 11 Mar 2016 |
Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Act Repeal Bill |
Bill – private | 10 Mar 2016 |
Environment Canterbury (Transitional Governance Arrangements) Bill |
Bill – government | 10 Mar 2016 |
Ngatikahu ki Whangaroa Claims Settlement Bill |
Bill – government | 10 Mar 2016 |
Final Order Paper for Thursday, 10 March 2016 |
Order Paper | 10 Mar 2016 |
Greater Christchurch Regeneration Bill 2015 (2016 No 79-2): Bills Digest 2327 |
Bills Digest | 09 Mar 2016 |
RLWT flowchartTaxation (Residential Land Withholding Tax, GST on Online Services, and Student Loans) Bill |
Bill – SC advice | 09 Mar 2016 |
Responses to questions from meeting on 2 March 2016Taxation (Residential Land Withholding Tax, GST on Online Services, and Student Loans) Bill |
Bill – SC advice | 09 Mar 2016 |
List of drafting changes in revision-tracked version IRD 19464/19.0Taxation (Residential Land Withholding Tax, GST on Online Services, and Student Loans) Bill |
Bill – SC advice | 09 Mar 2016 |
Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu Supp1New Zealand Public Health and Disability (Southern DHB) Elections Bill |
Bill – SC evidence | 09 Mar 2016 |
Te Pire mō Te Reo Māori / Māori Language Bill |
Bill – government | 09 Mar 2016 |
Real Estate Institute of New ZealandTaxation (Residential Land Withholding Tax, GST on Online Services, and Student Loans) Bill |
Bill – SC evidence | 09 Mar 2016 |
Final Order Paper for Wednesday, 09 March 2016 |
Order Paper | 09 Mar 2016 |
Māori Language (Te Reo Māori) Bill 2014 (2016 No 228-2): Bills Digest No 2326 |
Bills Digest | 08 Mar 2016 |
Appropriation (2014/15 Confirmation and Validation) Bill |
Bill – government | 08 Mar 2016 |
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