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BigPulse

Lets organizations run secure online elections and nominations, from emailed one-click voting links to live monitoring and verifiable results.

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Overview

Administrators submit an election form and a BigPulse project manager sets up ballots, counting method, voter authentication and anonymity; the team tests with test voters before launch. Voters get a personalized email with a one-click sign-in link, vote in any web browser and receive a vote receipt. Administrators monitor turnout on the Election Dashboard, send reminders, open and close individual ballots for live meetings and receive results on a secure BigPulse URL with raw vote data for audits. Online nominations transfer approved nominees to the ballot. The fully managed service normally covers one election with multiple ballots; the self-managed service is for tech-savvy administrators.
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Who it is for

Industries
  • Education
  • Government
Organization Types
  • Business
  • Nonprofit
  • Education

Product

Solution Kind
Application

Images

Election Dashboard monitoring turnout and per-ballot vote counts during live voting (organization and user details redacted)1 / 2

Election Dashboard monitoring turnout and per-ballot vote counts during live voting (organization and user details redacted)

BigPulse Election Dashboard showing live ballots, vote counts and turnout for a council election

Before you choose

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  • The fully managed service normally covers a single election with multiple ballots; additional elections are priced by separate quote.

Features

Online Voting

Send personalized one-click voting links by email

Vote from any web browser on a smartphone, computer or tablet

More details & conditions: Online Voting

Issue a vote receipt after each vote

Schedule reminder emails for voters who have not yet voted

Election Management

Set up ballots, dates, counting method, email schedule and anonymity setting

Monitor vote counts and voter activity on the Election Dashboard

More details & conditions: Election Management

Add multiple administrators with different permissions

Open and close individual ballots and release results

Reuse a previous election as a template

Run online nominations that transfer approved nominees to the ballot

Voter Authentication

Unique voting account per voter

SMS PIN, PIN code, personal data and email validation as additional factors

More details & conditions: Voter Authentication

Voters can vote only once unless re-voting is allowed, in which case only the last vote counts

Voter Management

Group voters into voting groups with access to chosen ballots

Add and edit voting accounts and fix voter email addresses

More details & conditions: Voter Management

Block, unblock or remove voters from an electorate

Assign re-voting rights to individual voters

Check whether a member has voting access

Ballot Management

Customize ballots with logo, candidate pictures and bios, banners and font styling

Rotate candidate order after each vote

More details & conditions: Ballot Management

Input paper ballots and proxy votes with optional double entry

Multi-language ballots defaulting to the voter's preferred language

Polls/Voting

Run ballots using first-past-the-post, STV, ranked choice, range, cumulative, weighted and split voting

Run live resolution votes during virtual meetings

More details & conditions: Polls/Voting

Accept candidate write-ins and control undervotes and overvotes

Secure Login

One-click automatic sign-in links

Single sign-on via CAS, Shibboleth, SOAP, LDAP, Flexmls, Facebook and others

More details & conditions: Secure Login

SMS PIN two-factor authentication

Real-Time Results

Count votes live and view live statistics on the dashboard

Release results instantly after each ballot closes during live meetings

More details & conditions: Real-Time Results

View voters currently online

Workflow details

Secrecy
  • Name
    Absolute anonymous vote storage
    Description
    Nothing in the database links the vote to the voter.
  • Name
    Anonymous voting
    Description
    No one sees how each person votes, but votes are linked to voting accounts, which allows vote changes.
  • Name
    Transparent voting
    Description
    Election administrators can see how each person votes.
  • Name
    Fully transparent voting
    Description
    Everyone can see how each person votes, like a show of hands.
  • Name
    Vote encryption mode
    Description
    Votes are encrypted in transfer and when stored in the database.
Workflow boundary and exception handling
  • Voters receive a unique vote receipt and can search a Vote Verification page listing de-identified receipts; raw vote data can be downloaded for audits, and with anonymous voting this does not compromise voter anonymity.

Pricing

Fully Managed Service

USD 899 / flat fee / one_timeOne time billing

USD 899 / flat fee / one_time

One time billing

Export included in the plan
Yes

Plan details & limits

Limits
  • Elections included

    1

    Conditions
    Normally a single election with multiple ballots; additional elections are quoted separately.
    Enforcement
    Soft

Self-Managed Service

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Renewal Policy
To renew, contact BigPulse with the subscription length (3, 6 or 12 months) and number of voters to reactivate the account.

Plan details & limits

Business Model
  • Subscription
Limits
  • Elections and ballots

    Unlimited/ Subscription term of 3, 6 or 12 months

Technical details

Deployment

Browser Support
  • Platform
    Any web browser
    Supported tasks
    • Voting from any web browser on a smartphone, computer or tablet, with no app download
Client Channels
  • Browser
Delivery Models
  • Cloud (SaaS)

Languages & regions

Business Currencies
  • AUD
  • EUR
  • GBP
  • USD

Implementation

Delivery Mode
  • Self service
  • Vendor
Typical Duration
Unit
Hours
Scope
Fully managed elections can often be launched at short notice, often within 24 hours
Maximum
24
Estimate kind
Vendor estimate

Data

Exit Export Scope
  • Records
Export Formats
  • CSV

Customization

Supported Scopes
  • Branding

Security

Access Models
  • Role based
Accessibility Claims
  • Kind
    Self declaration
    Scope
    Voter ballots (compliance as stated by the vendor)
    Standard
    ADA and Section 508
Assurances
  • Kind
    Certification
    Scope
    Handling of personal data originating from the EU
    Standard
    EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework
  • Kind
    Certification
    Scope
    Data centres in Canada and the UK that host BigPulse servers
    Standard
    SSAE18, CSAE3416 and ISAE3402
  • Kind
    Assessment
    Scope
    Daily scan of BigPulse servers for malware, phishing, exploitable weaknesses and SSL certificate validity
    Issuer
    McAfee SECURE
    Standard
    Daily server scan
Deletion Policy Url
bigpulsevoting.com/about/security
Encryption At Rest
Yes
Encryption In Transit
Yes
Residency Scope
  • Country
    Canada
    Data class
    Primary data
  • Country
    United Kingdom
    Data class
    Primary data

Support

Channels
  • Email
  • Phone
Human Availability
Weekdays
  • Mon
  • Tue
  • Wed
  • Thu
  • Fri
  • Sat
  • Sun
Human staffed
Yes
Included In Plan
Yes

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