Trustless Elections
Elections that
don't require trust
Every vote is timelock-encrypted. No one sees results before the reveal — not even us. No insider advantage. And anyone can verify the outcome independently.
No Information Advantage
Every vote is timelock-encrypted to a future moment. Until that moment, no one can see a single result. Not the organizer, not the server, not anyone. No leaked counts. No strategic voting. Everyone learns the outcome at the exact same instant — including external verifiers.
No One Counts the Votes
When the reveal time arrives, a distributed randomness beacon unlocks every ballot at once. Code computes the tally deterministically. No human touches the count. No one can miscount, delay, or selectively discard.
No One Can Corrupt It
Every ballot is cryptographically signed and proven valid with a zero-knowledge proof. Accepted ballots go into a tamper-evident Merkle tree. You can't add fake votes, remove real ones, or modify anything.
Secret Ballot or Tracked Participation
In secret ballot mode, no one can link a voter to their ballot — not even the server. In tracked participation mode, organizers can see who voted while vote content stays encrypted. Either way, every ballot is verified before acceptance.
Every election has a trust problem
ZeroVote replaces trust with math.
Board votes where the chair sees results first
No one sees results first. Votes are timelock-encrypted to a future drand round. The decryption key doesn't exist until the scheduled reveal time. Not for the chair, not for the server, not for us.
Union elections where members don't trust the count
No one counts the votes. A distributed beacon unlocks every ballot at the reveal time and code computes the tally deterministically. There's no person to bribe, pressure, or make a mistake. Anyone can verify the result independently.
Student elections where someone stuffs the ballot box
Every voter authenticates with their own cryptographic key. Every ballot is proven valid with a zero-knowledge proof and sealed in a Merkle tree. You can't add fake votes, remove real ones, or modify anything without detection.
Awards shows where insiders profit before the public knows
At the 2025 Golden Globes, Polymarket odds were on screen throughout the broadcast. Anyone who knew the winners early could have traded on that before results went public. With ZeroVote, the decryption key doesn't exist until the reveal moment. Anyone can run an independent verifier that settles at the exact same instant. No information asymmetry. No insider advantage.