Transparency
- VOTEism is an opinion poll app. You need to enable location on your mobile to vote. (In the earlier version of VOTEism, we required you to verify your mobile number to vote. We have now removed this for enhanced voter privacy. Instead we use a combination of hardware signals and other heuristics to uniquely fingerprint a device).
- You can change your vote anytime. Only your latest vote will be counted.
- Votes are encrypted and signed locally on your mobile device and securely transferred to "n" databases belonging to "n" clouds. This way we'll have a quorum and also know if any set of cloud data is compromised.
- Encrypted votes are downloaded to a separate non-cloud system where they are decrypted with the private key.
- An 'anonymised-unencrypted' vote is stored per user for providing near real-time statistics. The tally of the 'anonymised-unencrypted' votes is matched to the tally of the 'encrypted-decrypted' votes. This acts as an additional checksum.
- Anonymized and aggregated results are published on the VOTEism mobile apps.
- Opinion poll results are viewable in VOTEism's mobile apps.
- VOTEism is built and published by a small and independent software company (AskDesis INC.) based in the United States. We have no political, governmental, corporate, media or venture capital affiliation.
- VOTEism is funded by its parent, AskDesis INC and we currently do not accept any outside funding.
- Our main costs are associated (but not limited) to server bills, SMS costs for verifying mobile numbers (only where required) and the cost of the team involved in building and managing VOTEism's mobile and web apps.
- In the event we are unable to meet our costs, we reserve the right to seek financial support by launching a public donations page.
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Updated: 28.Sep.2022
Last modified 4mo ago