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Solutions | Election Management|Results Consolidation
Scytl's Results Consolidation Platform (RCP) allows the Electoral Authorities to collect data from all the polling places and consolidate the results from different voting channels such as poll site voting, postal voting and Internet voting in an independent environment. Scytl's RCP provides cryptographic and/or biometric receipts to election officials that can be attached to ballot boxes to ensure its integrity and non-repudiation. Scytl's RCP also allows publishing the results and other electoral data through different channels, including TV and the Internet.
Benefits
Security
· Strong cryptographic protection to prevent external & internal attacks
· Tamper-proof receipt for physical ballot boxes
· Results publication in independent environment
· Cryptographically protected consolidated report
· Authenticity & integrity of transmitted data
· Election officials authentication & data encryption
Privacy
· Non-repudiation
· Audit capabilities
Rapidity
· Quick tallying of the votes
· Customization to different tallying algorithms
· Reporting servers supporting thousands of hits from media companies/general public
Flexibility
· Running on standard PC, PDA, Poll Book
· Telephone channel used if Internet is unavailable
· Easy integration with legacy systems (EML-compliant)
· Results consolidation from different voting channels: paper, postal and Internet.
· Customization to the client's needs
Scalability
· Used for elections of all sizes
· Various tallying methods at different levels (regional, centralized)
Usability
· Easy to manage & operate
· Multilanguage
· Mechanisms increasing the quality of the information submitted
Reusability
· Cost efficient
· Reusable standard hardware
Success Case
Madrid Participa:
From 2004 on, the City of Madrid is using Scytl's EDMP to carry out "Madrid Participa", one of the largest e-participation events in Europe. Scytl's EDMP allows the City of Madrid to control in real-time the participation rates and the electoral roll through PCs. As a "vote anywhere" system is offered to the citizens, Scytl's EDMP permits to avoid that citizens vote twice. In total, the City of Madrid has used the system in 22 e-consultations that involved over 4 million citizens.
Components
Client service
· Managed by the election officials or voters
· Reports electoral results through defined templates through cryptographic protection
· Increases the quality of the reported data
· Runs on standard PC, PDA, Poll Book
· Digital signature &/or biometric attachments to physical ballot boxes
· Secure and user-friendly
Gathering service
· Managed by the Electoral Authorities
· Located on one/more servers
· Provides result reporting templates
· Stores the local precinct results after their validation
· Consolidates the results from several precincts
· Generates a unique receipt proof
· Authenticate election officials and voters
· Tallying/Publication/Admin Service
· Managed by the Electoral Authorities
· The Tallying Service securely compiles all the local polling places partial results & generates provisional reports
· The Publication Service makes the partial results & reports publicly available through different channels · The Admin Service creates the electoral board for the tallying service, manages the authentication mechanisms, defines the information to be published and validates the electoral data reports using digital signatures and biometrics
