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Online elections. Secure and Fast.

Do you need to elect a new board, president or committee? Try a highly secure online election with high participation and fast results.

What

Configure your election according to your bylaws: open or secret, weighted votes for shareholders and much more.

Why

Save time, paperwork and money. Reach every member or shareholder quickly, worldwide.

Who

You are the board, management or secretary of a company, association or cooperative.

Why not

Your bylaws or statutes do not yet allow online elections and virtual assemblies.

Your online Election NOW.

Secure E-voting self-service. In minutes.

EXAMPLES | 1 min
Let’s see some some examples first.
Single-winner election
Closed-list election
1. Register and LOGIN | 3 min
Test for free before you decide and proceed.

Clicking the button will open a new browser-tab with the POLYAS online election manager.

Register
Please follow these steps:
  • Register with your email, name, country and password.
  • You will receive an email from POLYAS. Confirm your account.
  • We recommend that you keep your password in a safe place: your key-chain or a password-manager like SecureSafe.
2. Create the BALLOT – Your agenda | 10 min
One ballot paper per question or choice.

Please follow these two steps:

CREATE ballot paper – Setup | 5 min
Fast-track: Use Ballot Template

An online voting is called project. First you do the setup of your project.

For every question/choice you create one ballot paper. You can do this through the web interface OR the fast and easy way: Make use of the Polyas Ballot Template (Excel)!

Please follow these steps:
  • Click New Project and choose Online Voting.
  • Give a Title to your project.
  • Go to Ballot Paper TAB and Import and export.
  • Download the ballot template.
  • Choose the Excel TAB with your preferred election type and edit it.
  • Then import your Excel Ballot Template per drag-and-drop.
  • At import select your election type.
Import screen
EDIT ballot | 5 min
Your text, the candidates, options.

You can easily edit and finalize your project online if you have not done so in the ballot template:

  • Add your content (titles and text) to your ballot paper(s), TAB Ballot paper. Simply edit the text online, it will be auto-saved!
  • Check and finalize your candidates!
  • Option: Like to add your Custom Logo or other cool features to your voting? Check the TAB Features.
  • Tip: Use the Preview TAB to check on your text and appearance!

This is a powerful product. For any questions or advanced features please consult POLYAS HELP

3. Enter the VOTERS | 5 min
Online entry or excel-upload.

Up to 20 voters you might want to enter directly in the POLYAS web-interface. Otherwise download / edit / upload our voters excel template.

  • Go to Eligible voters TAB
  • Register your voters online OR download the (link) voters Excel template in the import and export TAB. After editing you can import it per drag-and-drop.
  • Providing only your voters email is sufficient. Option: In Attributes you can add more attributes like name, address, etc.
4. START your online voting | 5 min
Final test, configure voting period – Complete

Better run a quick test vote first (for up to 5 test voters).

Completing the project will give an overview and show the total cost to be paid to POLYAS.

Steps:
  • Check Test button (bottom right) and run your test.
  • Set the Voting Period in the Overview TAB
  • Press the Complete button
  • Choose your POLYAS payment option
  • Review order and Complete
Configure voting period
Complete and Test buttons
5. VOTING and RESULTS
Track participation, progress and view results.

You can track the voting progress in the Online Voting Manager.

  • Check sending status of invitations.
  • Track participation.
  • Voting ends automatically after voting period or you end it manually.

Once the voting has ended you can view and download the results. The results come as a handy PDF or Excel. Congratulations!

PRICING and cost
FREE up to 50 voters. Transparent online cost calculator.

The POLYAS cost calculator will at all times show the total cost to you.

Testing and evaluating the product is free.

Democracy.guru is offering a 10% discount voucher to you.

Get Voucher

Pricing examples without features:

  • 50 Voters: FREE
  • 100 Voters: 184.- CHF/EUR
  • 1000 Voters: 1038.- CHF/EUR
  • Features: Flat-pricing or per voter
NEED HELP? democracy.guru can setup your ballot
Book our fixed-rate service for CHF/EUR 380.-

If you need help, because you have no time or you have a complex ballot paper in mind, you can book our ballot configuration service here.

Once you order, POLYAS will share your project with us. You provide us with what you want to do and we will configure it, within the possibilities of the application.

After successful test we will be unshared from your project by POLYAS and the voting and results are all privately yours.

Conditions and Steps:
  • With booking and order confirmation you accept the Terms & Conditions of democracy.guru
  • You provide your project description to us. Of course details (questions, etc) can be anonymized.
  • We configure your Ballot Paper.
  • If needed we talk and explain. Upon appointment.
  • You test your project.
  • We finish our service and unshare from your project.

PRODUCT

Our secure solution POLYAS

Democracy.guru evaluates the worldwide E-voting provider market on-going for you. Out of more than 80 solutions, we have chosen the German market leader POLYAS as the provider for our first voting applications. POLYAS convinces with:

A powerful and mature product, made in Germany.

Highest compliance and security certifications.

Easy for voters, smartphone ready.

20 years of success, more than 4 million voters in 2022.

Secrecy of the ballot

POLYAS is certified to follow the electoral principles: universal, free, direct and secret. Cryptographic techniques are used to enable the secrecy of the ballot in online voting.

Question: Do you believe that employees or members would always state their true opinion in front of their boss or the other team members?

The power of E-voting

Democracy.guru aims to promote the power of online voting with simple use cases. But of course much more is possible.

Do you need a Nomination platform for your management board or committee? Or do you want a Live Voting for your general assembly? Please contact us or see yourself at POLYAS products.