The startup has developed a blockchain-based voting platform that enables secure online voting for citizens, including absentee, military, overseas, and disabled voters. This platform facilitates voter registration and absentee ballot requests while ensuring verifiability, accessibility, and transparency in the electoral process.
Funding
$7.2M 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.
Founders
Product
Problem
Current election systems face challenges in providing secure, accessible, and transparent voting options, particularly for absentee, military, overseas, and disabled voters. Traditional paper-based systems can be cumbersome, prone to errors, and lack the verifiability needed to ensure voter confidence.
Solution
Votem offers a blockchain-based online voting platform designed to enhance election accessibility, security, and transparency. The CastIron platform provides a full-featured election management system that supports various voting methods, including online, phone, and hybrid approaches. By leveraging blockchain technology, Votem ensures that cast vote records are immutable and that voters can verify their votes were accurately recorded without compromising anonymity. The platform is designed to meet the needs of diverse voters, including those with disabilities, by offering features such as multi-lingual support, voice response options, and compatibility with screen readers.
Target Audience
Votem's primary customers include government entities (nations, states, counties, municipalities), associations, labor unions, and private organizations seeking to modernize their election processes and improve voter accessibility and trust.
Features
- Blockchain-based platform ensuring immutability and transparency of vote records
- Support for multiple voting methods: online, phone (IVR), and hybrid print elections
- Accessible voting features compliant with ADA, HAVA, and WCAG 2.0 standards, including screen reader compatibility, adjustable font sizes, and contrast settings
- Multi-lingual support for voter registration, authentication, and ballot marking
- Secure voter authentication and ballot marking to prevent fraud and ensure voter privacy
- Real-time audit trail, allowing for irrefutable tracing of each vote to its source
- Integration with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for enhanced system security and protection against denial-of-service attacks
- Moving target defense technology with Polymorphing and Polyscripting technologies that provide protection against zero-day attacks