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Electing the Doge of Venice: Analysis of a 13th Century Protocol

Miranda Mowbray; Dieter Gollmann · 20th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF 2007), pp. 295–308 · 2007

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Miranda Mowbray; Dieter Gollmann
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DOI 10.1109/CSF.2007.21

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EstablishedFrom 1268 the doge was chosen by a ten-round procedure in which electoral colleges were alternately reduced by lot and enlarged by supermajority votes, ending with 41 electors who needed 25 votes to elect; no family could have more than one member in a college.TheoryMowbray and Gollmann's analysis found that the doge-election protocol offers some resistance to corruption of voters and some opportunities for minorities, at the cost of considerable complexity.