During authentication, the Voatz app encrypts the voter’s identity and links the phone to the voter via their fingerprint. Once authentication is complete, all identifying information (photo, identity record) is deleted. This process ensures that no identifying information is stored and effectively allows a voter to be both verified and anonymous. Voters are then able to privately access their ballot and vote from their mobile device, and after submission, these votes are anonymously stored on a public-permissioned blockchain network.
To learn more about how this process works with accompanying visuals, please watch the video on the How it Works page on our website.
If for any reason a voter falls off the voter registration rolls, the jurisdiction will no longer send a mobile ballot. Since Voatz does not store any identifying information, a voter must complete the registration and authentication processes again in order to gain eligibility and access their ballot(s).