Sede

This is a program that can be used to organize electronic mass decision making: polls, referenda, elections etc. Every voter gets a code, can vote with it, and check the vote with the code.

The program is not web based or e-mail based. It is abstracted from particular protocols. Ballots are ultimately plain text files, therefore they can be moved back and forth in different ways, even on a per voter basis.

You can for instance write a ballot in a program-text form (java script for use within a HTML e-mail attachment for instance), as long as a plain text form is recreated eventually for processing.

Results are also plain text files, these can also be mass communicated in many ways. So, while some voters may receive an encrypted email, others may receive for the same voting process: a hard copy letter, a miniature SMS-ballot, a plain text email, through a telephone voice service, an email encrypted with a different encryption program, etc.