Voatz is a mobile voting platform that utilizes biometric authentication, real-time identity verification, and blockchain technology to ensure secure and verifiable elections. The platform enables voters to cast their ballots remotely, addressing accessibility challenges and providing a voter-verifiable paper trail for audit purposes.
Funding
$10.6M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Traditional voting methods can present accessibility challenges for overseas citizens, military personnel, voters with disabilities, and others who may find it difficult to vote in person. This can lead to disenfranchisement and reduced participation in elections.
Solution
Voatz provides a mobile and web-based voting platform that leverages smartphone security, remote identity verification, biometrics, and blockchain technology to enable secure and accessible elections. The platform allows eligible voters to cast their ballots remotely from their smartphones, tablets, or computers. The process generates a voter-verifiable paper trail, allowing for audits and optional instant results tabulation. Voatz integrates with existing election systems and streamlines the voting process for administrators.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes government entities, political parties, and organizations seeking to conduct secure and accessible elections for overseas citizens, military personnel, voters with disabilities, and other eligible voters.
Features
- End-to-end encryption to secure data from the voter's device to the Voatz servers
- Voter identity verification using facial recognition technology paired with device biometrics or PIN
- Generation of a paper ballot for tabulation alongside other ballots
- Anonymized and password-protected ballot receipt for voters to verify their selections
- Immutable logging and storage of anonymized ballots on geographically-distributed servers running on blockchain technology
- Support for various election types, including government elections, convention voting, verified polling, digital petitions, and sample ballots
- Integrates with existing election systems
- Hardened browser-based app available as a backup if the native app cannot be downloaded