OpaVote

What is OpaVote?

OpaVote is an online voting tool which aims to help users achieve more democratic results in their elections by better representing the voters’ will. The solution supports hybrid elections, and enables the combination of both on-site and off-site voters in a single election. All voting pages in OpaVote are encrypted to ensure complete security and privacy to voters.

OpaVote can be used to elect representatives for organizations, choose candidates for political parties, streamline formal decisions, and discreetly check if the members of unions would like to strike before holding a formal assembly. Users can automatically send voters secure, single-use voting links via email and collect authorized votes. Multiple voting methods are supported, including ranked-choice voting - instant runoff voting (IRV), single transferable vote (STV), and Condorcet - weighted voting, approval voting, and others.

OpaVote can be used both to hold elections and also to count ranked ballots which have already been collected. The reporting tool provides real-time updates on which voters have received emails, visited their voting page, and voted. It can even detect when emails get marked as spam, which results in high deliverability. At the end of the election, users will receive the raw ballots as well as a detailed report with counts automatically done. Interactive graphics give users fine-grained details of each step of the process of explaining these counts. OpaVote also lets users create personalized online polls and publicize these through their website, social media accounts, or email lists.