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Security and other Features

SecretBallot

Secret Ballot is a function where individual voter’s vote details is not available to anybody including the election managers and the IT team managing the platform.

This ensures the voter can vote without any fear.

This is specifically helpful where election management is in hands of one of the contestants.

Example: If a dictator of a country is holding a referendum on himself, citizens of that country would be very scared to vote against him. With assurance of #SecretBallot, voters can vote fearlessly.

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To ensure there is no hacking or coercion risk, our system records I.P address, vote time and voter location at the time of voting. In case lot of voting is happening from same location of I.P. address our system would be able to flag possibility of coercion or hacking.

Also, this ensure that voter cannot claim later that somebody else voted instead of him.

Voterreceipt

We provide voter a receipt with his vote information via SMS / EMAIL / PRINT. This gives the voter the confidence that vote has been recorded properly. Similar to VVPAT system, if accuracy of system is questioned, these receipts can be counted to prove the accuracy of the system.

Weightedvotes

Generally one person has one vote. However, in certain voting including voting of creditors in insolvency cases, different voters have different weightages based on their investment or some other criteria. This feature ensure that the poll creator does not have to do offline weight allocation to votes which is a very tedious and error prone task.

VoterSelfie

Remote voting has the challenge that somebody else might vote on behalf of voter. Voter selfie feature ensures the voter has to vote in person.

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VoteRecord

Vote record in a superior feature than Voter Receipt as it provides vote record direct from the servers. Hence in case votes has been tampered with post voting, the voter would come to know. Transparency is the best antidote against malpractices

GeoTagging

Geo tagging is a functionality where along with vote geographical location of the voter at the time of voting is recorded.

This is specifically very helpful when the poll manager want’s to understand to evaluate the variation in voting pattern across different geographies.

Example: If a poll is happening on popularity of different sports, Cricket would appear very popular due to number of votes. However, if geographical concentration of votes are considered it would be clear that majority of votes are coming from Indian sub-continent.

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Geo-Fencing

Geo-Fencing is a functionality where we can restrict voters from certain geographical areas only to be able to vote. People outside that geographical area would not be able to vote.

Example: In 2014, Mr. Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister of Delhi asked for opinion of Delhi citizen whether he should continue as CM or resign. People across the country and the world ended up voting in that poll leading to misleading results.

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With Geo-Fencing function, we can restrict voter outside the geography (in this case Delhi) from participating in the poll.

100%Secure

Aadhaar based authentication, Mobile / Email OTP based security and End to end encryption ensures 100% secure platform with no scope for manipulation by insiders or outsiders

ServerConfirmation

One of the perceived risk of online system is hacking –specially hacking while transit. There is a risk that vote data would be tampered with while the data flows from voter mobile to our central server.

To eliminate this risk, we have built a feature where our server ask for confirmation from voter before his vote is recorded.

Endtoendencryption

Any sensitive poll the security of the system is the first concern.

Right2Vote provided end to end encryption which ensure 100% hacking proof platform.

AadhaarbasedVerification

Aadhaar based verification is a functionality by which we can verify the voter voting remotely in real time. Aadhaar verification can happen in 3 ways:

1. Fingerprint: Voter has to provide his fingerprint to enter the voting page of the app and this is cross verified with Aadhaar database of Government

2. Iris scan: Voter’s eye scan is taken and verified against Aadhaar database

3. Mobile OTP: before giving access to voter of the voting page, a One Time Password (OTP) is sent to the mobile number which is registered with the Aadhaar number against the name of the voter in the Aadhaar database. This ensure 100% accurate verification and unlike booth voting is not dependent on discretion of the booth manager

Mobile/Remotevoting

One of the biggest challenge of booth based voting system is that a voter has to be physically present to vote. This leads to low voter turnout.

With Right2Vote platform a voter can vote from anywhere directly from his mobile. There is no need for him to be physically present at the booth the vote. This also saves lot of time, cost and effort for the election managers.

Noqueues

As people can vote directly from that mobile and from anywhere and anytime there is no queue. This saves lot of time, cost and effort for the voter too. Also this increases voting percentage.

Real-timeresults

Right2Vote platform provides realtime results for all polls. There is no requirement of physical counting of votes and the complete voting process happens without any manual intervention.

However, the platform also provide options of result counting to happen only after close of poll when all voters have already voted.

FullyAutomatic

The whole process if fully automatic. Except for entering questions into the system, no human intervention is required. The voting process, the authentication process, the result counting process - everything is fully automatic.

Maker–Checker-Scrutinizer

We have Maker – Checker –Scrutinizer features to ensure division of work and control.

This would reduce the powers vested with the poll creator / maker. The maker has to get the poll approved from checker.

Scrutinizer, who is generally an external professional of high reputation, gets to view and scrutinize the results.

Closedgrouppoll

Voting is effective only when its done in a closed predefined group. It is very important that your voter list represents all otherwise voting can’t give right results. With Right2Vote you can predefine who is allowed to vote and who is not allowed. Only people allowed to vote, would get access to poll.

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AllowNomination

Allow nomination is a functionality where voter is given opportunity to suggest option other than the one listed by the poll managers. In this case if a voter nominates a new option, all subsequent voters would also see the new option in the list and would be able to vote on the new option.

For example: If the HR of the organization has nominated 4 names for the award of “employee of the year” award, each employee would have the choice to nominate himself or somebody else for that award. This would make the award more fair.

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In a country like India where many people are not literate and where different sections of people are comfortable with different languages, picture is the only universal language. We provide the option of putting one or two pictures in options for voter to identify their option easily

PersonalizedInvite

The platform provides personalized invite capability. Personalized invite not only boost the ego of the voter and increases his chance of responding but also provides him with the much needed information which like booth location, ID required etc. which is essential for him to vote

IndividualNotification& reminder

Right2Vote platform allows you not only to send individual invite to voters but also to check status of voters who have not voted and send reminders to them

Respondents

When you have created a poll, you can’t wait for your voters to vote.

RIght2Vote platform provides you real-time information on who has voted and who is yet to vote. It also provides you facility to send reminders to those who have not voted with a single click

Allowvotechange–Antidote toCoercion

Allow vote change feature allows the voter to change his vote anytime before the close of the poll.

This feature is very useful where a voter is expected to change his opinion due to happening of certain event. For example, audience of a debate might have different opinion on a subject before the debate and might change their opinion after hearing the debate.

This feature is also a very useful feature where there is a risk of coercion. If the voter was forced to vote against his wishes, whenever he is in private space, he can change his vote.

SingleTransferableVote(STV)

Single Transferable Preference Vote (STPV) is method of counting used in 'Proportional Representation' method of election. Its a very complex system of voting where each voter get only one vote and he is supposed to rank the candidates. One or more than one winner is selected based on candidates getting maximum first preference plus transferred votes. Votes of Candidate who gets least votes are transferred to other candidates based on second and subsequent preference.

President of India, Rajya Sabha, CA Institute, Bar council and several such elections use STPV method of vote counting. Such counting generally take thousands of man hours. With Right2Vote platform even STPV counting happens in almost real-time.