Proxy Voting System for Indirect Entrustment Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
In voting systems, absent voters often face challenges in meaningful participation due to restrictions on indirect entrustment, leading to invalid votes and reduced turnout, especially when they lack acquaintances among attendees.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for transmitting entrustee information to indirect-entrustment voters, utilizing an entrustment managing storage unit to store relationship information and an attendance managing storage unit to classify voters, extracting indirect-entrustment voters, determining recommended entrustees, and transmitting information to enable effective proxy voting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If indirect entrustment is permitted in voting systems, then voter participation is improved, but vote validity is worsened due to potential abuse of indirect chains
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments voters into different categories (direct entrustment voters, indirect entrustment voters, and effective/ineffective voters) based on their entrustment relationships and attendance status. This segmentation allows the system to process and validate different types of entrustments appropriately, maintaining vote validity while enabling broader participation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback to indirect-entrustment voters by transmitting information about recommended entrustees (attendees who can represent their votes). This feedback loop allows voters to make informed decisions about whether to change their entrustment to a direct one, ensuring vote validity while maintaining high participation.
2Ease of operation
If entrustment information is transmitted to indirect-entrustment voters, then meaningful proxy voting is improved, but system complexity is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The information transmission unit serves multiple functions: it identifies indirect-entrustment voters, determines recommended entrustees, and transmits relevant information all through a single integrated mechanism. This multi-functionality approach enables meaningful proxy voting without requiring separate complex systems for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an information transmission unit as an intermediary between the entrustment management storage unit and indirect-entrustment voters. This intermediary processes and transmits only the necessary entrustee information, simplifying the interaction while enabling meaningful proxy voting without direct complex voter-to-voter communication.
3Reliability
If strict direct-entrustment-only rules are enforced, then vote validity is improved, but voter participation is worsened when no acquaintance is available
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary identification of indirect-entrustment voters and determination of recommended entrustees before the voting process. This preliminary action allows voters who initially made indirect entrustments to receive information and potentially change to direct entrustments, ensuring both validity and participation are maintained.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts the entrustment status by allowing indirect-entrustment voters to receive information about recommended entrustees and potentially change their entrustment type. This dynamic approach enables the system to transition from a static direct-entrustment-only model to a flexible model that maintains validity while improving participation.
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AI summary
An entrustee information transmitting method includes an entrustment managing storage storing entrustment relationship information indicating correspondence between entrusters who are voters performing entrustment and entrustees who are voters entrusted by the entrusters in an entrustment managing storage unit; an attendance managing storage storing attendance information of respective voters in an attendance managing storage unit in units of bills; an indirect-entrustment voter extracting operation of extracting one or more indirect-entrustment voter who indirectly entrust an attendee by using the entrustment relationship information and the attendance information; an entrustee determining operation of determining attendees who are indirectly entrusted by the indirect-entrustment voters to be recommended entrustees; and an entrustee information transmitting operation of transmitting information of the recommended entrustees.