Frequently asked questions.

An online voting platform built for organizations: associations, co-ownerships, staff representative bodies, committees, teams. You create a vote, the platform invites your voters, secures the ballots in their browser and publishes a result anyone can verify. Two modes to choose from: classic single-choice voting, and Condorcet preferential ranking, which brings out the most consensual choice.

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Any group that needs to decide together with an indisputable result: association boards, general meetings, unions, parties, school councils, works councils… Votes range from a handful of people to several hundred voters. Six typical use cases are covered in detail, each with its own constraints.

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Nothing for now: Condorcet.Vote is in alpha, and every feature is free and unlimited during this period: as many elections, voters and options as you need. The upcoming model is already published: a free offer up to 20 voters per election, and the Official election (certificates, guarantee and premium support) paid in credits, one per possible vote.

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Nicolas de Condorcet, an 18th-century mathematician and philosopher, showed that a classic vote can hand victory to a minority option as soon as there are more than two choices, and proposed the remedy: comparing the options two by two based on everyone's preferences. That method, now a reference in collective decision-making, gives the platform its name.

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In English, French, and Italian, for the site and the voting pages alike. The infrastructure is fully ready for translation: more languages will be added over time.

In a few steps: describe the vote, add the options, choose the mode (single-choice or Condorcet ranking), invite the voters, then open the vote. Once the vote is closed, you run the tally in one click, so there is nothing for you to count.

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Yes. You can create an election with a simple admin secret: a secret code, always available, that is enough to manage everything. An account remains useful to find all your elections in one place.

You provide the voter list; the platform itself sends each voter their personal voting link by email. You never handle those links: nobody can vote in a voter's place, and ballot secrecy does not depend on you.

No limit is enforced during the alpha. The platform is designed for groups of all sizes, from a few people to several hundred.

Yes. You can watch participation grow during the vote, and see who has already voted so you can remind the others, without ever knowing what anyone voted for.

Everything is automatic: the result is computed with the chosen method (recorded and displayed with it), and the election's public register is sealed: the ballot list is frozen, hash-chained and signed by the platform. From that point on, anyone can recount.

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That is precisely what the public register is for: every ballot is published there in a frozen, signed form, and anyone (a voter, a challenger, a trusted third party) can redo the count with independent software. In a dispute, that verifiable register serves as evidence.

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Yes. An election can be moved to the “Cancelled” state. Elections are never permanently deleted: they remain soft-deleted, for traceability.

An election option, off by default and frozen at launch, that publishes each ballot linked to its voter's identity. It is reserved for votes that are attributable by nature, such as co-ownership or general meetings, and automatically turns on nominative participation disclosure. Voters are clearly warned before voting, and a legal basis is required. By default, an election stays anonymous.

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No. Voters take part through a unique, secure link, with no sign-up and nothing to install. Only organizers can create an account.

The platform automatically sends each voter a personal link by email. The organizer provides the voter list but never sees the links themselves. This link is valid only for you, and for a single participation.

No. Everything happens in the browser, on desktop and mobile alike. No installation, no external module.

By default, yes. Your ballot is signed in your browser with a ring signature: it proves you are one of the authorized voters without revealing that it is you. The public register lets no one link a ballot to a voter, and the platform keeps no link between the two. One caveat: the organizer sees which signing group you voted in; if almost nobody else votes in it, they could guess your choice. Exception: if the organizer has turned on “non-anonymous voting” (reserved for votes that are attributable by nature, such as co-ownership), a clear warning tells you so on the voting page before you vote.

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No. Once a ballot is sent, it is final: this is what guarantees the integrity of the count. Make sure of your choice before you confirm.

That receipt holds your secret voting key, which is generated in your browser and never sent to the server. It lets you locate your own ballot in the public register and check its content; and, should you ever decide to, prove to a third party that this ballot is yours. Be aware: that proof reveals your vote, it is always voluntary, and nobody can produce it in your place. Keep the receipt somewhere safe.

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With your receipt: the public register page lets you locate your ballot and verify its content bit for bit, including before its final publication in the chain. Only the receipt holder can run that lookup: it reveals nothing to anyone else.

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With single-choice voting, each voter picks one option: simple and fast, but with three or more choices, a minority option can win. With Condorcet preferential ranking, each voter ranks the options; they are compared two by two, which brings out the most consensual choice. In practice: two options or a yes/no decision, single-choice is enough; three options or more, Condorcet ranking is fairer. Both produce a complete ranking.

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Six deterministic methods: Schulze (winning votes, the default), Schulze (margins), Ranked Pairs winning votes, Ranked Pairs margins, Copeland, and Dodgson Quick. Non-deterministic methods are not offered. The chosen method is recorded and displayed with the result.

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No. Partial ranking is allowed: unranked candidates are treated as less preferred than the others, and tied with each other. Ties are also possible if the organizer allows them.

When no option beats all the others (the famous “Condorcet paradox”), a resolution method decides in a consistent, deterministic way: that is precisely the role of Schulze, Ranked Pairs, or Copeland. The result is always reproducible.

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Yes, by running several elections one after another. Note that preferential ranking often makes a second round unnecessary: the complete preferences are already expressed. Multi-winner (proportional) methods are planned for later.

All ballots are published in a hash-chained public register: the frozen list of votes can be recounted by anyone, with the software of their choice. Each register block is additionally signed by the platform, and the public verification keys are published. You do not have to take our word for it: that is the verifiability guarantee.

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Your ballot is signed in your browser with a ring signature. Your secret key never leaves your device. The public register is hash-chained with SHA3-512, and each block is signed by the platform with OpenPGP. The cryptographic core is open source and builds on proven libraries.

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100% in France, at OVH, on a single domain. Everything is served first-party, including the cryptographic module: the browser loads no external dependency.

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No. No analytics tool, no advertising cookie, so no consent banner. Only strictly necessary state (session, language, theme) is used.

The protocol is built on proven open source components, and the cryptographic code is publicly inspectable. An independent review of the ring signature variant is planned; its result will be published on the Security page.

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The service is in active design: everything is free and unlimited, but data is not guaranteed (it can be erased without notice) and features can change abruptly. In plain terms: do not use Condorcet.Vote yet for a vote with legal or binding value.

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Yes, for everything trust depends on: the cryptographic core (CryptoVote, in Rust/WebAssembly) and the tallying library (CondorcetPHP) are open and inspectable by all.

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Write to us through the contact page: during the alpha, user feedback directly shapes the design. The open source libraries also take reports directly on GitHub.

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