Polling-station capture
Field agents enter counts and attach a legible pink sheet or equivalent result record, with station identity and submission time.
ELECTION RESULTS INFRASTRUCTURE
Every result has a route back to its source.
VoteTally is designed to preserve polling-station records, verify counts against source evidence and update result views as approved returns arrive. Every published figure should have a traceable path back to its station.
For election management bodies, political parties and authorised observer operations.
RESULT JOURNEYILLUSTRATIVE WORKFLOW
01
CapturePolling-station figures and evidence
02
VerifyReview, query and approve submissions
03
CollateAggregate verified results by geography
04
PublishShow totals with links to source records
A traceable path from station to summary
THE PLATFORM
See the figure.
Examine the evidence.
When physical result sheets are damaged, disputed or hard to retrieve, a timely, independently preserved digital record can help teams reconstruct what was submitted and when. VoteTally’s demonstration follows a station return through capture, supervisor review and aggregation, with evidence available for inspection. It does not replace the physical ballot, official custody procedures or legal collation rules.
Only verified submissions enter the demonstration’s published totals. In a production election, release rules, disputed-return handling and the authority to publish would be configured with the customer. The demonstration uses fictional parties, candidates and results; it is neither a forecast nor an official count.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPLORE
A connected results workflow
Built around the handoffs that matter on election day and during post-election review.
Supervisor verification
Supervisors inspect figures against source evidence, approve supported returns or query a record for correction.
Geographic drill-down
Verified returns flow into geographic totals as they arrive; reporting coverage shows which stations are still outstanding.
Evidence-linked results
Keep digital copies of source sheets, submission versions and an activity trail for review and dispute resolution.
WHY THE EVIDENCE MATTERS
Keep a second record when the physical trail is under pressure.
Election operations can face damaged materials, delayed returns and contested collation. A station agent can capture the count and its source sheet close to the point of counting, then send it into a controlled review path. If a physical sheet later becomes unavailable, authorised reviewers can examine the preserved digital copy, timestamps and submission history.
The system protects and organises digital evidence; it cannot physically secure ballot boxes or certify a disputed result on its own. Human verification and the applicable election law remain decisive.
SECURITY & RESILIENCE
Security in layers, recovery by design.
A production design must be tested against the election’s threat model, legal requirements and expected scale.
Control who can do what
Role-based permissions, strong authentication, device and session controls, least privilege and separation of field, verification and administration duties.
Protect the source record
Encrypted transfer and storage, content checks, cryptographic hashes, version history and restricted access to result sheets and attachments.
Make changes accountable
Record submission, query, correction, approval and publication events. Reconcile station counts and surface duplicates, missing returns and anomalies for human review.
Watch and respond
Central monitoring, alerting, access reviews, vulnerability management, independent testing and a rehearsed incident response plan for election periods.
Keep independent copies
Multiple service locations, isolated backups, defined recovery targets and tested restoration paths help sustain operations if a component fails or evidence is lost.
Publish with controls
Release only approved figures, show reporting coverage and preserve prior versions and source links so corrections can be explained rather than hidden.
What is live today, and what is planned?
The private demonstration shows role-based capture, verification, evidence-linked aggregation and an activity history with synthetic data. The wider controls above describe a proposed production architecture. Hosting topology, penetration testing, independent audit, backup drills, service levels and operational staffing must be specified, implemented and verified for each deployment. No internet-connected system can be guaranteed unhackable.
WHO IT SERVES
One platform concept.
Different operational needs.
Election management bodies
Coordinate capture, verification and publication with a reviewable record across administrative levels.
Political parties
Organise field returns, compare submissions with source evidence and monitor geographic reporting.
Authorised observers
Review permitted result views and evidence trails within an agreed access model.
ENTERPRISE DEPLOYMENT
Designed around your election operation.
The proposed production model is hybrid: customer-controlled or local infrastructure can work alongside independently hosted services and geographically separated backups. The exact architecture can combine institutional hosting with managed cloud services, avoiding a single operating location or provider dependency. Connectivity loss, service failure, cyber incidents and disputed results each need a documented fallback and recovery procedure.
01Map the election workflow, legal custody and reporting structure
02Agree threat model, access, evidence retention and hosting responsibilities
03Test a pilot, failover, recovery and election-period support
Hybrid deployment and independent services are a proposed production approach, not a claim that the current private demo runs across multiple providers. Security controls, recovery times and service commitments are set and tested in the implementation agreement.
ABOUT VOTETALLY
A product of Dominion Technologies Ltd.
VoteTally is an election results capture, verification and collation platform for electoral management bodies, political parties and authorised observers.
Dominion Technologies was established as an enterprise in 2003 and incorporated as a limited liability company on 25 January 2010.
Registration number: CA-70,120
Business address: #1 Naa Densua Plaza, Achimota, Accra, Ghana
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Tell us the election type, geographic scale, field teams and evidence requirements. We can arrange a guided demonstration within 24–48 hours of your request and discuss security, hybrid hosting, fallback procedures and an implementation plan.
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