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From the about page (now defunct): Agora Ciudadana is an innovative free software project whose aim is to create a social network for the people, allowing secure and scalable votings via Internet with just your web browser The project is being driven by Seville, Spain-based Wadobo . From their project description : Agora Ciudadana is a social web site where anyone can create or join in an agora. An agora has a set of members which can vote in the agora’s elections either by direct vote or by delegating the vote. The source code is available on GitHub . Update : Agora Voting has been discontinued, and renamed and updated as nVotes . In order to access a copy of the old Agora Voting site, view an archived copy .

Choicely is “a voting app for when you want group decisions” that supports different types of voting systems (e.g. allocating tokens, spending a pot of money). Each process (vote, participatory budget, etc.) has a unique shortcode that administrators can send to participants in order to access the specific process. Choicely is compatible with a number of devices: desktop, tablet, and both Apple and Android smartphones. From Choicely’s blog launch post : Choicely lets you host content on each option, and ensures a minimum degree of engagement. It is still and will always be up to you to get the conversation going, to educate and inform, to help diverse views get heard. But however you run it, however open or secure or thorough or community-wide you choose your conversation to be, at the end, if you don’t want to require everyone to be in one place at one time, you can take the final decision through Choicely. Choicely is open-source and its source code is available on Github . Choicely is a Wilsonielsen project, funded by Nesta and The Big Society Network as part of the Your Local Budget programme. Choicely is developed by Mark Corbin. Update : Choicely has been discontinued. In order to access the site, view an archived copy .

D21 , formerly Democracy 2.1, is a voting system allowing participants to choose multiple options as well as cast negative votes for the unfavorable in order to reflect a wider range of preferences compared to single-vote polls. In doing so, D21 results illuminate both points of consensus and points of controversy. Results from votes can be segmented by gender, age, neighborhood and profession, information that is gathered from anonymous and voluntary contributors. Additionally, the platform offers data visualization, map analysis, and proposal functionalities. Other polling system features include: brand customization, voter verification (create verified voter lists and invite participants by e-mail or SMS ), online and paper ballots. Read more about the theory and methodology behind D21’s voting algorithm here. Frustrated by the endemic corruption and electoral dysfunction of his native Czech Republic, anti-corruption activist, mathematician, and philanthropist, Karel Janeček, began developing the new voting system in 2012. D21 was beta tested in October 2013. The D21 voting platform has been used in diverse project contexts. Among the many examples are: participatory budgeting in cities, stakeholder voting at organization meetings, staff engagement for businesses, and parent participation in school decisions affecting their children. The company is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, but also has team members on the ground in New York, Paris, Tunis, Beijing, and Bangalore.

From the website: Electionbuddy is the complete online voting platform for running elections, polls, or referendums for boards, associations, schools, or anyone! Electionbuddy is being developed by EventIQ based Edmonton, Alberta (Canada).

From the about page : Follow My Vote is a nonpartisan public benefit corporation born on the 4th of July, founded on the principles of freedom, as a tribute to the Founding Fathers of the United States. A public benefit corporation is a new legal tool to create a solid foundation for long-term mission alignment and value creation. Mission: Follow My Vote’s mission is to promote truth and freedom by empowering individuals to communicate effectively and implement non-coercive solutions to societal problems. As a first step towards fulfilling our mission, Follow My Vote is taking on the challenge of improving the integrity standards of voting systems used in elections worldwide. In order to ensure that election results are honest and accurate, we are developing an online open source voting platform that provides transparency into election results by allowing voters to independently audit the ballot box. Using cutting edge technologies, such as blockchain technology and elliptic curve cryptography, we can actually accomplish this, all while protecting each voter’s right to privacy. Some background on the blockchain technology and how it can be applied in an e-voting context.

From the website: Helios offers verifiable online elections. We believe democracy is important, whether it’s your book club, parent-teacher association, student government, workers’ union, or state. So we’ve made truly verifiable elections as easy as everything else on the Web. From the FAQ : What makes Helios different/better than other voting systems? Helios is truly verifiable. Each voter obtains a smart ballot tracker which can be checked against the Ballot Tracking Center to ensure that the ballot was received and tallied appropriately. What this means is that no one, not even the administrators of the Helios Voting system, can alter your vote. Helios Voting is a project by Ben Adida . The source code is available on GitHub .

From a Code for America blog post about Hyperarchy: Hyperarchy is an online decision-making tool that allows team members to pose questions, submit answers, and rank the list in their preferred order. Under the hood, the system applies the Tideman method of ranked pairs to generate a consensus list from the sum of personal ratings. By imposing a logical structure on the messy process of collaboration, the system allows teams to deliberate without falling victim to groupthink or gridlock. Hyperarchy is open-source and its source code is available on Github . Update : Hyperarchy has been discontinued. In order to access the site, view an archived copy .

nVotes, originally named and functioned as Agora Voting , is an online open source election management system that offers online encrypted and anonymized ballots. In order to access the ballot, voters must enter their e-mail and authentication entry code sent to them by the organizers. Ballots can contain one or multiple questions, and can be list, dropdown, and yes-or-no choices. To try out nVotes, visit their sample election . Below is an introductory video to nVotes: nVotes is available in English, Italian, Russian, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish. nVotes is open-source and its source code is available on Github . nVotes is developed by the nVotes Team based in Madrid, Spain.

From the about page : OpaVote was created in 2011 to provide an affordable and professional quality online voting platform for ranked-choice voting. Although OpaVote supports traditional check-the-box voting as well, it is hoped that organizations will choose to use ranked-choice voting once they understand the benefits and how easy it is to implement in their own elections. OpaVote uses OpenSTV to count the ranked-choice votes. OpenSTV was created in 2003 and is now the most used and most reliable software for counted ranked-choice votes. Through OpenSTV, OpaVote supports commonly used vote counting methods such as instant runoff voting, Condorcet voting, ERS97 STV , and Scottisch STV . OpaVote is designed for scalability and reliability. OpaVote uses Google App Engine and Amazon’s Simple Email Service to help ensure that OpaVote can handle web traffic from a large number of voters and to help ensure that emails get delivered to voters. OpaVote supports elections with up to one million voters. More information, incl. pricing info, is available in the FAQ . OpaVote is based out of Somerville, Massachusetts.

From their profile page on angel.co : Voting Redefined – Voatz is on a mission to make it safe and convenient for citizens to vote directly via their smartphones. Voatz is a non-partisan, high security mobile-only election voting platform. Voters require a biometrics-enabled smartphone & have to undergo a comprehensive identity, eligibility verification process prior to being to able to vote in elections. All kinds of elections are supported including local, municipal, state, national, corporate, university or private events as well as proxy shareholder voting. Candidates and associated groups can also campaign “direct-to-app” and fundraise from voters who have opted in to support them.

VOLIS is an electronic information system for local government councils. Its mission is to facilitate information exchange between governments and its citizens, promote public participation in local decision-making processes, and raise the quality and efficiency of local government administrations. The information system software package does so by: creating operating environments for the members of councils and local governments and shows the public what is happening at the sessions along with the agenda, voting results and automatically-writing protocol through the Internet. Registered users are able to peruse the website (categorized by municipality) for documents related to the activities of their local government, and submit their own proposals and suggestions on the platform. The software system permits access to live viewing of local council meeting sessions and real-time meeting minutes. Primary features of the software include: Paperless document management and processing Different possibilities for participation in meetings including virtual participation E-voting ID card Automatic self-writing session protocol Session Webcast and recordings archive Possibility to do paperless all participatory budgeting processes and use polls where secure voting by e population is provided. VOLIS is also available as a mobile application. Based in Tallinn, Estonia, Andmevara Ltd. is the developer and provider of VOLIS . The pilot project was funded by the EU’s European Regional Development Foundation. VOLIS was first piloted in the city of Jõgeva in June 2010, and has since been implemented in several Estonian cities.