Election Day Management Platform

Manage in real-time your election day

Scytl’s Election Day Management Platform (EDMP) allows the Electoral Authorities to manage all the elements related to the Election Day, from its planning to its supervision and monitoring before and during the electoral process. Scytl’s EDMP also gives the election officials the means - among other functionalities - to manage the centralized or standalone electoral roll and the participation rates in real-time during the Election Day.

Benefits

Flexibility

  • Running on standard PC, PDA, Poll Book
  • Centralized or decentralized management process
  • Telephone channel used if Internet is unavailable
  • Easy integration
  • Customization to the client’s needs

Security           

  • Strong cryptographic protection to prevent external & internal attacks
  • Authenticity & integrity of transmitted data
  • Election officials authentication & data encryption
  • Privacy
  • Non-repudiation
  • Audit capabilities

Scalability

  • Used for elections of all sizes
  • Update of the central electoral roll & management of the local electoral roll

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
  • Runs on standard PC, PDA, Poll Book
  • Reports any issues detected in the polling place
  • Requests voter related info
  • Sends the participation rates at any moment
  • Manages the electoral roll
  • Secure and user-friendly

Gateway service

  • Managed by the Electoral Authorities
  • Located on one/more servers
  • Securely stores & forwards reports & requests
  • Provides info to the election officials
  • Manages subsets of the electoral roll
  • Synchronizes the info with the EDMP client service
  • Authenticates election officials

Admin Service

  • Managed by the Electoral Authorities
  • Manages the electoral roll
  • Manages the election logistics
  • Manages the polling places
  • Manages the authentication mechanisms
  • Delegate & assign tasks
  • Displays the polling place situation and participation rates on a map system
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