KumbiVote

Overview

KumbiVote is a decentralized voting platform built on the Polygon network. It provides features for user registration (with KYC), election creation, sponsored and community elections, secure voting, and dispute resolution.

Project Structure

• backend/: Project's Django backend

• frontend/: UI components built with Next.js

• blockchain/: Smart Contracts and blockchain components

• scripts/: Automation scripts

Setup

Automated Setup (Recommended)

For Debian and derivatives (Ubuntu, PopOS, etc.) our setup script would suffice. To use this method navigate to the desired installation path and execute the following command:

curl -sSL https://kumbi.ke/scripts/setup.sh | sh

Manual Setup (Advanced)

For manual setup please follow the instructions provided below -

Prerequisites

• Git
• Node.js/Bun
• Javascript package management tool (npm/yarn/pnpm)
• Python ^3.10
• PostgreSQL
• Solidity
• Etherium Development Environment (Truffle/Hardhat)
• Etherium Client (Ganache,truffle develop would suffice)
• MetaMask with the Polygon Mumbai Testnet configured
• Remix IDE (for contract development) - [OPTIONAL]

Environment Setup (Debian & Derivatives)

1. Git, Python, PostgreSQL

sudo apt install git python3.10-full python3-pip python3-venv python3-pip-whl postgresql-14

2. Node.js via nvm

# installs nvm (Node Version Manager)
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.0/install.sh | bash

# download and install Node.js (you may need to restart the terminal)
nvm install 18

# verifies the right Node.js version is in the environment
node -v # should print `v18.x.x`

# verifies the right npm version is in the environment
npm -v # should print `10.8.2`

3. Solidity

• solcjs via npm

# Install solcjs
npm i -g solc

#Confirm Install
solcjs --version

• System binaries via package manager

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ethereum/ethereum
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install solc

4. Truffle Suite ¹

# Install truffle
npm i -g truffle

# Confirm Install
truffle --version

¹ Please note that the truffle suite is being retired. Please see [Hardhat](https://www.hardhat.org/)

Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/kumbi-the-peoples-baraza/KumbiVote.git
cd KumbiVote

2. Install dependencies

• BACKEND

# Change to the backend directory
cd backend

# Install a Python virtual environment
python3 -m venv venv

# Activate the virtual environment
source venv/bin/activate

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

• FRONTEND

cd ../frontend/
npm install

• BLOCKCHAIN

SETUP

BACKEND

Generate app secret key

• Using ssl

# Generate Key
openssl rand -base64 64

• Using python

# Generate key using python
python3 -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe(64))'

Please copy key value from stdout and paste it to your environment file.

• Populate .env file and change environment variables

# Rename sample file to .env
mv .env.sample .env

• Configure PostgreSQL

Initial setup instructions are on backend/utils/psql There are two files in that folder:

• setup.sh

List of common useful postgresql management commands and initial login. If PostgreSQL is already installed and the service is running you may run the command below to enter the psql shell.

Unless you want to manually define your roles please use the db_setup.sh script. This script defines the initial setup so roles, users, privileges and database creation. You may use this script to set up the database and users thus:

sh scripts/db_setup.sh

• Test PostgreSQL connection to backend

# Connect to Db shell from Django
python3 manage.py dbshell

• Run Migrations

 python3 manage.py makemigrations
 python3 manage.py migrate --run-syncdb --verbosity 3

• Create a superuser

python manage.py createsuperuser

• Run the development server

python manage.py runserver

• Open your web browser and navigate to

http://127.0.0.1:8000/

FRONTEND

• Run development server

# Run dev server using npm
npm run dev

# Run dev server using bun
bun run dev

# Run dev server using pnpm
pnpm run dev

# Run dev server using yarn
yarn run dev

# NOTE: You're only supposed to invoke one of the above!

You should see

# Running dev instance using Bun
$bun run dev
$ next dev
▲ Next.js 14.2.6
- Local:        http://localhost:3000

✓ Starting...
✓ Ready in 5.7s