About The Ballot
Election news from South Sudan, and an election system that communities, unions, associations, churches and student groups use to run their own votes.
Our news
We publish election news: voter registration, announcements from the bodies running elections, candidates and campaigns, civic education, and results. Every results story says plainly whether its figures are official, provisional or not yet verified.
How an election runs on The Ballot
- Set it up. Create the election, add the positions and candidates, and register the voters.
- Open the booths. Approve the phones or tablets that will be booths, then open voting.
- Vote. An officer checks the voter in, a booth unlocks, and the voter taps their choice and confirms it. The vote is stored with no link to who cast it.
- Count in public. Results update on the election’s own page as votes come in. Anyone with the link can follow them.
Before you use it
- The Ballot is for private and local elections. It is not certified for government or public elections, and not offered for them.
- ID-card check-in works today. Fingerprint check-in runs on a built-in test scanner; support for real fingerprint hardware is still being built.
- Ballot secrecy is part of how votes are stored, not only a promise.
- Results are public only for elections whose organizers choose to publish them.
Run your election with The Ballot
Download the admin app and create your committee’s account. A person reviews each new committee before it can sign in. After that you also get the registration, kiosk and scanner apps. Your committee only ever sees its own elections.