SSG iTec

SSG e-Voting is a cloud-based electronic voting system. It can be used independently or as part of the SSG CloudSoft™ platform. Thousands of delegates have voted using our system at the national congress of one of the largest parliamentary political parties in Greece! Your members can vote electronically using their mobile devices and their member card. The cross-platform app works seamlessly on both Android and iOS devices. Enterprise databases such as MySQL, Oracle, and Google Cloud SQL are supported as part of the backend system.

Create a new voter database or use the platform system, publish the app on Google Play and Apple’s App Store, and you are ready! The app is carefully designed to take full advantage of mobile device capabilities. Scanning the card’s QR code with your smartphone camera is all you need to enter the e-Voting environment. No member’s card? No problem! SSG's e-Voting system also works perfectly in any browser. No app needed. Simply enter the member’s voting ID on the browser login page where the e-Voting service is hosted, and you are in! Wondering if you can use both methods at the same time? Of course you can! Can I create polls with the e-Voting system? Yes! Creating polls is another built-in feature of SSG's e-Voting system.

What about front-end functionality?  Your members can see your event’s program, change their voting PIN code and of course vote when the voting starts and see the results when the voting ends! Moreover, several exceptional features are included to make your voting event even better: Calendar: You can announce the elections through a calendar! All details—such as date, time, and description—are included, and if the voting procedure takes place at a physical venue as part of an event, an interactive navigation map is available! Subscriptions Payment: If your members need to pay a fee or subscription in order to vote, can they pay directly through the app? Yes! The app supports online payment methods such as PayPal and major credit/debit card processors.    Live Audio/Video Streaming: Another fantastic feature! You can provide live audio streaming coverage of the event. All members can listen to live announcements, speeches, and even music during breaks directly inside the app. Live video streaming is also available if needed!

What about security?

Using SSL/TLS encryption prevents man-in-the-middle attacks. Moreover, we strongly recommend hosting on a highly secure cloud infrastructure such as Google Cloud Platform to protect against server attacks.

And what happens if a member loses his card or someone else knows his voting ID?

Voting IDs can be immediately disabled. Furthermore, requiring a personal PIN code before casting a ballot ensures that no one else can vote instead of you, even if your voting ID has not yet been disabled.

What about voting validity? Are the results accurate and incontrovertible?

SSG’s e-Voting system uses ballot box cryptography as well as unique validation codes. Ballot box private and public keys are generated by the election committee. The public key is provided when voting starts and the private key is used when voting ends. Cryptographic hash codes are also used for verification purposes. 

No one can interfere, and no one can know the intermediate results while voting is in progress!

And what about keys?

The election committee can easily generate a public/private voting key pair using the key generator utility. This utility creates the key pair using the industry-standard open-source software OpenSSL, executing the following command:

openssl req -x509 -days 365 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout private-key.txt -nodes -out public.key 

An additional security feature is that the private key is protected by a master password created by combining the individual PINs provided by each member of the election committee. This acts as a multi-party electronic signature, ensuring that all election committee members must be present to unlock the ballot box.

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