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Electronic voting

End-to-End Electronic Voting Solution

One identity, one vote.

Voter registration, voter card and digital voter ID issuance, biometric authentication at the polling station, and electronic voting — one chain, built so that every stage can prove what the one before it established.

From biometric to e-Ballot
1Voter registrationFace, fingerprints and biographic data captured and searched against the roll.2Voter card or digital IDA personalized voter card, a digital voter ID, or both.3Identity authenticationThe voter proven at the polling station before a ballot is released.4eVotingThe ballot marked and cast electronically, with printed evidence retained.5Encrypted transferResults encrypted and transferred, with the physical evidence secured.
Digital voter ID

IDMCode

IDMCode is a multi-dimensional graphical code carrying a facial image, biometric features and biographic data in one mark. Built on modern cryptography, it acts as a trusted digital voter ID: hard to tamper with, and large enough to hold the personal features that make a check meaningful.

It is authenticated offline on a biometric terminal such as BioTab, so a polling station with no connectivity can still establish that the person in front of it is the voter on the roll — one identity, one vote.

A graphical code plus a facial image, fingerprint and iris, making one IDMCode
A graphical code, plus the holder’s face and biometric features, is one IDMCode.
Dual authentication
Checked digitally by a terminal, and visually by a person.
Capacity
Adjustable coding capacity up to 1000 bytes.
Error correction
Reed-Solomon, with four levels: 7%, 15%, 25% and 30%.
Offline
No connection needed at the point of check.
Why electronic

Electronic voting against paper

The same election, run two ways.

Traditional paper voting

Heavy workload, low efficiency, high potential risk

  1. 1Every candidate is listed on a printed ballot.
  2. 2Electoral staff issue the ballot to the voter.
  3. 3The voter marks the ballot by hand and puts it in a box.
  4. 4Staff count every ballot by hand to reach a result.

Electronic voting

More secure and efficient, anonymous, fast and accurate counting

  1. 1Every candidate is listed in the voting system.
  2. 2The voter selects a candidate on the machine.
  3. 3The result is encrypted and the physical evidence secured.
  4. 4Counting and statistics are automatic.
Managing the fleet

Device Management Platform

An election puts thousands of devices into the field for a few days, across regions that are hard to reach and harder to support. The Device Management Platform gives one view of all of them: where each device is, whether it is healthy, what version it runs, and what it has been doing.

The Device Management Platform home page: a national map of deployed devices, online and offline rates, device ranking and equipment groups
The home page: every deployed device on the national map, with online and offline rates, device ranking and equipment groups beside it.
One operations map
Every device with a colour-coded status, drilled down from the country to the region to the individual unit.
Real-time status and service data
Health, throughput and success rates as they happen, so a failing station is known before the queue notices.
Remote update and lockdown
Signed over-the-air updates with staged rollout and automatic rollback; a lost or stolen device is locked remotely.
Geofencing and tamper alerts
A device that leaves its authorized zone locks itself, and tamper switches and port controls are monitored throughout.

Every capability of the platform is set out on its own page.

IDmetrix® Device Management Platform (DMP)