holochain-ballot

What is holochain-ballot and what is it for?

holochain-ballot is an experimental voting app built on Holochain that handles elections, voter registration, ballots and a transparent tally. It exists for people who want to learn how a peer-to-peer vote works in practice, or to run a small group pilot where participants accept a public count and an identity tied to their agent keys.

holochain-ballot is an experimental voting project on Holochain. Its own documentation describes it as software for learning, demonstrations and controlled organisation or community pilots, and states that it is not intended for certified public or government elections. It ships scope and threat-model notes alongside the code so that the limits of that use are written down rather than implied.

The app covers the parts of a small election: an election with options, an optional list of who may take part, registration, one vote per participant, and a tally that is meant to be checked rather than trusted. The person who creates an election moves it through stages — draft, registration, voting, closed — and only that person can advance it. Rules such as one registration and one vote per participant per election are enforced in the app itself, and the tally records vote action hashes so a count can be recounted.

The quickest way to see it work is the terminal demo, which runs the app across several conductors at once and prints each step as four people create an election, register and vote. A separate browser dashboard shows the same run, and a small educational showcase interface introduces the same scenario. The repository README links the full documentation set, including the scope, threat model, eligibility and tally-audit notes.

From 2 public sources, checked 23 September 2026.