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Balotiq: Secure E-Voting for Institutions and Pageants

A tenant-isolated e-voting platform built so institutions, unions, and pageants can run an election people actually trust.

01 / Overview

Balotiq is a Nerds IV product: a secure, tenant-isolated e-voting platform for institutions, unions, and pageants, covering everything from registered member elections to public pay-per-vote contests.

02 / The challenge

Elections fail people in two ways: either the process is opaque and people don't trust the count, or it's so cumbersome that turnout suffers. Existing options forced organizations to choose one failure mode or the other.

03 / What we built

  1. 01Registered elections with eligible-voter import, identity verification, and one-ballot-per-voter enforcement
  2. 02Public pay-per-vote contests for pageants and open competitions, phone-verified with no account required
  3. 03Every ballot encrypted and chained to the one before it, so results can't be quietly altered after the fact
  4. 04Tenant isolation enforced at the database level, not just the application layer, so one organization's data never touches another's

04 / Where it stands

Early-stage and actively being built out, live in production at balotiq.com and in use for registered elections and pay-per-vote contests.