Verify My Vote

How to confirm your vote was included in the final ballot results.

After a ballot closes and results are finalized, you can independently verify that your vote was counted correctly.

What You’ll Need

  • Your voter identifier (e.g., stake1..., drep1..., or pool1...)
  • The ballot ID of the vote you want to verify

How Verification Works

When a ballot is finalized, Ekklesia constructs a merkle tree containing every valid vote. The merkle root — a single hash that represents all votes — is committed to Cardano L1.

To verify your vote, you check that your specific vote can be proven to exist within that merkle tree. This is called a merkle inclusion proof.

What this proves: Your exact vote (choices, signature) is part of the dataset that produced the on-chain result. It has not been altered, omitted, or fabricated.

Step-by-Step Verification

Verification tooling documentation coming soon.

Why Final Results May Differ From Preliminary

During a live ballot, provisional results may be displayed periodically as a convenience. These are strictly informational.

Ekklesia tabulates the cryptographic record of who voted and how. The application of voting power, voter eligibility, and thresholds is the responsibility of the voting authority — the organization conducting the vote. These factors are applied to the auditable results produced by Ekklesia, not by Ekklesia itself.

Final published results may differ from provisional displays once the voting authority applies their eligibility and weighting criteria.