Election Overview

The Near Digital Collective (NDC) is the largest movement of decentralization on any layer-1 blockchain and this is its first election where community members can run for positions and be elected by their peers. The NDC is working hard to put the grassroots community at the heart of decision making for the NEAR blockchain and for the NDC’s Community Treasury of 5 million NEAR tokens. The outcome of the election will determine how these funds are deployed and how the organization will be run moving forward.

Key dates for the NDC election

• July 20 — Start date for candidacy submissions
• Nominations are OPEN — Declare Candidacy with an OG SBT.
• September 7 — Deadline for candidacy submissions
• September 8 — Voting begins at Near Apac in Vietnam
• September 22 — Voting ends

What is the eligibility criteria to vote?

Any person with a Face Verified Soul Bound Token (SBT) is eligible to vote, and anyone can get one with a NEAR wallet through I-AM-HUMAN.

🗳️ Introduction to the NDC Elections Analytics Dashboard:

Welcome to the NDC Elections Analytics Dashboard, your comprehensive dashboard for monitoring and ensuring the integrity of the NEAR Digital Collective Elections. This dashboard harnesses the power of on-chain data to provide a detailed and transparent overview of the elections, allowing you to scrutinize voting, candidate information, comments, and more.

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✅ Verify Election Results

• This link serves as a vital tool to ensure the transparency and accuracy of the NDC (NEAR Digital Collective) election results displayed in this dashboard.

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🧩 Sections of the Dashboard

• Election Overview:
  • This section provides an at-a-glance summary of the entire NDC Elections, including total votes cast, voter demographics, and overall trends. It offers a high-level view of the elections' progress and outcomes.

• House-Specific Analysis:

  • Dive deeper into each of the four houses: House of Merit, Council of Advisors, Transparency Commission, and Budget Package. For each house, you can:

    • Review candidate votes

    • Monitor voting trends

    • Identify potential fraud

• Comments Section:

  • Stay informed about the discussions and feedback surrounding the NDC Elections. Monitor comments from participants, stakeholders, and the community at large.

 

The NDC Elections Analytics Dashboard is your go-to resource for upholding the principles of transparency and voting activity in the NEAR Digital Collective Elections. We encourage you to use this dashboard to scrutinize the elections, detect fraud, voting activity, voter and etc.

🕵🏻 Fraud Detection

Detecting fraud in NDC (NEAR Digital Collective) elections conducted on the blockchain involves careful scrutiny of various aspects of the election process. Here are several ways and methods to find fraud in NDC elections:

Analysis of voting patterns:

• We examine voting patterns for irregularities, such as sudden and unexplained increases in votes for a particular candidate.
• We are looking for fixed voting patterns where a group of voters vote equally for a certain group of candidates

Collusion and vote buying:

• We investigate evidence of collusion between voters or candidates, such as transactions involving vote buying or trading.

Bot detection:

• Bots often exhibit rapid, repetitive behavior, such as voting or commenting at unnatural frequencies.

🔍 Extracting and Analyzing NDC Election Data

In the development of this NDC Elections Analytics Dashboard, we have employed a robust methodology for extracting and analyzing data related to NDC elections. Our goal is to provide you with accurate and insightful information derived from the NDC Elections using Flipsidecrypto data and the near.core schema.

Data Extraction:

To acquire pertinent data related to NDC elections, we have utilized the following Flipsidecrypto tables and NEAR Protocol schema components:

• fact_receipts Table: This table contains transaction receipt data, which includes information about transactions performed on the NEAR Protocol blockchain.

• fact_actions_events_function_call Table: This table captures events related to function calls in smart contracts. Specifically, we have filtered this table using the following criteria:

  • receiver_id = 'elections.ndc-gwg.near': To target transactions associated with the NDC election smart contract.

  • method_name = 'on_vote_verified': To specifically focus on the 'on_vote_verified' method calls, which indicate the verification of votes in the election process.

  • receiver_id = 'nominations.ndc-gwg.near' and method_name = 'comment': To extract data related to comments on NDC elections, including commentary from participants and stakeholders.