🏛️ [EPIC] : Hermes Module - Catalyst Ballot Box and Voting - for Athena

[stevenj]

Summary

Catalyst Ballot Box and Voting

JIRA Epic

TODO

Description

Hermes Module for Athena to provide Catalyst Ballot Box functionality

Provide an API via the Hermes HTTP gateway to:

• Accept votes for Proposals from local users.
• Publish those votes securely over pub/sub to connected peers to be recorded by the Ballot Box. (Only if they are validly signed).
• Verify the vote has been stored in the Ballot Box and will be counted.

Via the Pub/Sub network, save all cast votes in the local DB.

Provide an API via the Hermes HTTP gateway to:

• Retrieve Votes that are published
• Authoritatively publish a receipt that the vote has been recorded securely.
• Perform an encrypted tally on all recorded votes.
• Reject votes cast outside the voting window.

Todo

Hermes Modules

• Database Schema and Vote publishing/collection from known Pub/Sub Channel
• Validate votes cast on the channel are from valid/authoritative voters for the event.
• Hermes API to perform encrypted tally on the collected votes in the bulletin board.
• Reject Votes cast before or after the voting window time frame.