Decentralized Election Contract (Rust/Anchor)
A transparent, tamper-proof voting system built with Rust. This contract leverages the "security by design" philosophy of Rust to ensure that votes are cast uniquely, counted accurately, and stored immutably.
Proposal Creation: Authorized administrators can initialize an election with specific candidates.
One-Vote-Per-User: Uses PDA (Program Derived Address) mapping to ensure each public key can only vote once.
Real-time Results: Tallying is updated on-chain as soon as a vote transaction is confirmed.
State Locking: Ability to open and close the election at specific timestamps.
Unlike Solidity’s "Contract" model, this Rust program follows a Stateless Logic model where data is stored in separate accounts.
Language: Rust 1.70+
Framework: Anchor (for Solana) or ink! (for Polkadot)
Safety: Utilizes Rust’s strict type system to prevent integer overflows and unauthorized access.
Storage: Efficient account serialization using Borsh.