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Overview
Licensing
Public Elections
Safevote can provide all voting services required by your organization. Our services are designed to work together to
maximize election integrity, ease of use, voter confidence and turnout.
Our experience since 1999
includes voter & candidate registration, campaigning, online and postal mail ballot creation & delivery, voting, nomination,
elections, by-law amendments, Board meetings, scientific surveys, petitions, signing forms, signing power of attorney,
printable (PDF) cast-ballot image, running tally, result analysis, and auditing. As the Election Manager, you define
how you want Safevote's service to run.
We offer time-tested solutions, with technology first qualified by the California Secretary of State in 2000,
and by the Swedish Government's Ministry of Justice Statskontoret in 2001. Our products do not use ActiveX controls
or cookies. JavaScript is not required, but may be used for added functionality if the voter wants. Works with
Windows, Mac, and Linux, with any current browser. Our products are ADA compliant.
ZSentry Ballot
Provides all election services required. Includes a weekly "Reminder ZSentry Ballot" function
that is useful to actively drive voter participation. Very easy for voters to
use. Unique access codes (DVC™) are sent to each eligible voter on behalf of the
customer by ZSentry Ballot, and used with a single-click. Voters who do not, or cannot, receive the Safevote ballot
can vote
securely with an
online provisional ballot that is directly authorized by the customer, further increasing voter participation.
Product features may be customized in order to serve diverse customer needs, including precinct voting, mail ballots and
integrated tallying provided upon request. All voters and ballots cast are audited. Request Quote >>
Customer Comments:
"I really liked and appreciated the election results and voter lists
you provided. The ZSentry™ ballot process worked very well for our last
election."
Norman Veen, PMP, Past President. Project Management
Institute, Central Iowa Chapter, IA
"I think the process went more smoothly this time around [with ZSentry™].
I think most members that did the online version found it user
friendly."
Coleen Salsbery, RN. Committee for Recognition of Nursing
Achievement (CRONA), Stanford Hospital and Packard Children's Hospital,
Stanford, CA
Secure Login Ballot
Makes it easier to comply with additional needs of large organizations. Customer can
create an "Election Center" page or site that centralizes all running elections. Voters
use familiar customer pages for login and can vote spontaneously. Upon login at the customer site
using the customer's pages and the customer's directory database, which the customer
may change at any moment, Safevote assigns unique access codes (DVC™) to each voter.
The DVCs are used automatically by voters, to vote privately and securely using the Safevote process.
Precinct voting, mail ballots and integrated tallying provided upon request. All voters
and ballots cast are audited. Request Quote >>
Customer Comments:
"Safevote's technology allows the University to use our own pages and
trusted login procedure to authenticate the voters, including data
from our enterprise directory. The voter goes on to vote using
Safevote,
while keeping all the privacy and security assurances, and audit, of
the Safevote process."
Åsa Rudehäll, Head of Vice Chancellor's Office,
Umeå Universitet, Sweden
What election product is best for you? The ZSentry Ballot product has the highest
voter participation rate and voter usability
feedback. Includes provisional ballots, that do not require an email address to vote, and a weekly
reminder function that are useful to actively drive voter participation.
Offers a range of election features in order to better serve diverse customer needs, including
write-in votes. Safevote will further assist you in choosing the best product for your election,
that brings the most value to your organization.
In planning your election, please take into account that starting your election involves
several mutual steps, best divided along 30 days.
Recommended election plan timeline.
SAFEVOTE ELECTION PLANNER
-30 days: | ORGANIZATION sends payment for election services. |
-30 days: | ORGANIZATION defines the ELECTION MANAGER and AUDITOR. |
-30 days: | ORGANIZATION and Safevote begin joint work. |
-14 days: | ORGANIZATION sends data on election races. |
-7 days: | ORGANIZATION sends data of eligible participants. |
-5 days: | ORGANIZATION reviews and approves Election Site. |
-2 days: | ORGANIZATION reviews and approves Election Ballot. |
-1 day: | Election Site available for public use. |
Day 0: | ORGANIZATION receives instructions on the "Provisional
Registration" facility. |
Day 0: | Election starts. |
Day 0: | Safevote starts to provide DVCs™ (unique access codes) to
eligible participants. |
Day D: | Election ends. We suggest an election duration of two weeks. |
D +1 day: | Safevote sends the voter list and election results. |
One to three business days after the election ends, Safevote sends the
voter list (with
the names of all who voted) and the election results, in Microsoft Excel format. The
entire election is audited before the Safevote election results are
sent to the ORGANIZATION. An audit trail is preserved until at least 30
days after the election closes, for all election data.
Overview
Safevote products integrate all services required in the
different phases of an election, without security gaps. Safevote meets
or exceeds all the current technical requirements for legally-binding
private sector Internet voting in several countries, including the US
and in Europe. Safevote also meets or exceeds the election requirements
currently in test for legally-binding public sector Internet voting.
Safevote assures election privacy, security and integrity with
a patent-pending, end-to-end ballot control technology including voter
registration, ballot distribution, auditing, tallying and reporting.
Auditing is integrated with every election phase, even during the
election, to prevent and detect faults. Customers use Safevote to
provide a better experience to voters, with less cost and liability.

Phases of a typical election process, clockwise from the top.
Safevote's online voting technology makes the entire election
process a "closed circle", where everything must be not only verifiable
but actually verified, from the initial qualification of information to
its final use that must be based on that qualification.
Safevote adds a useful layer of trust in the election.
Safevote shields the customer from the voter authorizations (Credential
Creation, Distribution and Management) and ballot processing, reducing
customer liability and potential conflict of interest situations.
Safevote offers two ballot authentication methods: CF and CL.
Either method can prevent a voter from casting more than one ballot,
keeping the rule of "one person, one vote". With CF (the default
method), only the first ballot is counted. With CL, however, voters are
allowed to vote multiple times but only the last ballot is counted,
which is useful to allay concerns of vote-selling and coercion.
The customer can also choose the language to be used in the
ballot, and in all instructions given to voters. Four languages are
currently available: English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
Additional languages can be provided upon request.
The products can be further customized. Candidates or races
can be chosen from a list, or using write-in fields. Each election race
may have its own election rule, such as "choose one" or "choose at
least four". Different ballots can be distributed to different classes
of voters, in the same election, by defining the respective ballot
styles. Candidate and issues to be voted may include biographies, short
statements, long statements, photos, streaming videos, audio or any
other media that can be encoded in browser pages. Voter choices in a
page may be rotated from voter to voter, assuring that all candidates
or issues receive top exposure. An election may have a default ballot,
with choices suggested by an election committee, making it faster to
vote for those who accept the default ballot. Voters may ask for human
verification that their ballot was indeed received for tallying.
Licensing
Would you like to focus on election
clients and let Safevote provide the infrastructure?
Licensing is available in the Safevote Election Partner Program.
If you are interested, please visit our Partners
page.
Public Elections
Safevote stands ready to certify and conduct Internet and electronic voting in
Public Elections, where accepted. Where the certification of Safevote's system depends on legislation
still being
discussed, Safevote is able to conduct Public Election Trials.
If you are interested in setting up a Public Election or Trial,
please visit our Public Elections Page
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