Solutions | Private Sector Elections|Professional Elections

Advantages over paper-based voting

Compared to conventional paper-based voting, Pnyx.labour provides the following advantages:
· Greater accuracy in the results: integrity measures prevent any accidental or voluntary loss or modification of the votes.
· Higher speed and accuracy in the vote counting process.
· Cost-effectiveness: the solution allows economies of scale
· Scalability: the solution can be adapted to different sizes of population
· Flexibility: the solution can be customized so that it complies with the customer's requirements
· Greater accessibility: remote participation from any device connected to the Internet

Main Features:

Security

· Only properly authenticated voters are allowed to participate.
· Voter privacy is protected at all times.
· The secrecy of partial results is guaranteed
· The integrity of the results is guaranteed, preventing the modification and deletion of votes and the addition of bogus votes.

Trust

· Every voter can individually verify (by means of voting receipts) that his/her vote has been properly counted.
· The verification system does not allow coercion or vote-selling.
· Control of the process is entirely in the hands of the Electoral Board, and cannot be manipulated by system technicians.

Accessibility

· The solution is user-friendly and adaptable for people with disabilities (e.g. blind and visually impaired citizens).
· Voters do not need to install any specific software, they only need a web browser
· The solution supports multiple languages.
· The system can be used remotely from any place connected to Internet or from supervised locations (polling stations).
· Results are accessible and verifiable from the Internet with a web browser.

Success cases:

Tradenomiliitto (Finland)

The Union of Professional Business Graduates in Finland (Tradenomiliitto) chose Scytl's secure e-voting technology for their Council elections in May 2006. Internet was the only channel to cast votes. TietoEnator, the leading IT consulting firm in the Scandinavian market, managed Scytl's e-voting solution and provided all the related services in this project.

Catalan Police Force (Spain)

During the labour union elections of the Catalan Police Force in 2003, Scytl's Pnyx.Labour was used with great success with the purpose of facilitating, to the members of the police force, the opportunity of casting their votes remotely via Internet and also through touch-screen voting terminals in supervised locations. 

The Spanish Notary Public Council (Spain)

The Spanish Notary Public Council selected Pnyx.Labour as the Internet voting platform to enable their members to cast their votes electronically in several elections. Approximately 70% of the notaries who participated in these elections chose the Internet as the voting channel over the conventional paper-based voting channels.