Voatz

Voatz is a company that offers a mobile voting platform enabling citizens to vote securely from their smartphones. The platform has been used in over 130 live elections across six countries, covering state, municipal, and federal levels. Voatz employs smartphone security, remote identity verification, biometrics, and blockchain technology to ensure the security of voter information and votes. The voting process generates a voter-verifiable paper trail, allowing for audits and optional instant results tabulation, and integrates with existing election systems to streamline the voting process.

Voatz offers a range of products and services, including mobile voting, tablet voting, an administrative dashboard, and a blockchain-backed audit portal. The platform supports multiple assistive technologies such as VoiceOver and TalkBack screen readers, configurable font sizes, and speech-to-text for write-ins. It currently supports English and Spanish, with plans to add more languages in future releases.

Voatz has been recognized with several awards, including the Fast Company World Changing Ideas 2021 Multi-Category Finalist & Honoree and the 2021 Webby Award Honoree for Apps and Software in Public Service & Activism. The platform has been used by governments and political parties in six countries to conduct public elections. Voatz has a public bug bounty program to facilitate ongoing threat detection and has paid nearly $63,000 to participants. The company has partnered with the National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) to assess and optimize its technology for accessibility.

Voatz’s blockchain is built using the Hyperledger Fabric framework, ensuring tamper-resistant, auditable, and immutable vote storage. The company undergoes a comprehensive security audit process involving multiple independent third parties and continuous internal testing. Voatz has received recognition for its innovative approach to mobile voting, including awards from the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge, MassChallenge, and Microsoft Civic Innovation.