It’s a brand new democratic, yet revolutionary voting system, through which everybody can vote for the people he knows or trust, and easily become a candidate himself. Election Platform provides an easy-to-use, transparent, and universal method to elect a team leader in your group or professional community, and even perform presidential elections. Everyone is welcomed to initiate and perform election campaigns, simply by inviting his friends to the voting; this can be done by sending e-mail invitations, choosing from Facebook list of friends or from the list of Election Platform registered members. Promote your friends and become a winner yourself!

Under a Classic Democracy the winner is the person who gets the majority of votes, but this model doesn't necessarily ensure that the majority elects the best candidate, due to a number of limitations that are being applied. At Election Platform we see the Democracy differently. Here are no limitations to the voting age, citizenship and race. In addition to that, the number of candidates you actually vote for is not restricted to only one, which, for example, is to cope with the situation when you are uncertain which candidate to vote for, but you'd rather prefer giving your vote to 2 candidates of 10. Election Platform also allows you to change your voting decision anytime before the election is closed. Finally, the winner is elected taking into account both the number of votes and the authority (weight) of the electors. A deeper overview on the way the authority and the winner are determined is given under Question 6.

Yes, absolutely. We are committed to our Privacy Policy, which is to ensure the complete security of the data provided by you.

No, this is prohibited. It is done in order to reduce confusion and duplicity of names.

It is the period during which the members of the election are able to join and cast their votes; upon the expiry of this period follows the winner announcement. The vote period is defined for each election in particular by the person initiating it.

Election Platform voting system relies on an extremely effective way to find out the winner in an election. Besides considering the number of votes a certain person accumulates, it takes into account also the authority (weight) of the electors, by analyzing the votes they got at their turn. Votes cast by people that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other people "important." This can be illustrated with the following trivial example: consider an election and 5 people ("A", "B", "C", "D" and "E") who vote as follows:
"A" -> "B"
"C" -> "D"
"E" -> "A"
"B" and "D" abstain from voting.
Though "A", "B", and "D" got per one vote, person "B" is to be the winner. That is because "B" was voted by "A", and "A" is considered "important" comparing to "C" and "E".

Sorry, you can't. But we encourage you to invite your friends to join same election(s), and if you deserve being voted for, then surely you'll be.

The name of the winner is announced immediately after the voting period ends, next to which the election is closed.

Upon the initiation of an election, there are available several types of them from which can be chosen only one:
Closed – Recommended for small groups (10-20 people)
Open with Password – Recommended for medium sized groups (100 people)
Open with Invitation – Recommended for medium sized groups (100 people)
Open - Recommended for extremely large groups (millions of people)
Open for Trusted People Recommended for large groups (hundreds of people)

For such an election type only the person who creates the election is able to invite candidates to join.
Recommended for small groups, such as for election of class leader.

Elections of this type can join both the people who know the password assigned to the election and those having invitations.
Recommended for medium groups, such as internet groups or forums.

For such an election type people can join the election only if they have a valid invitation from other members.
Starting with the creator, each person who has already joined the election can invite others.
Recommended for medium sized groups, such as blogger communities.

Every Election Platform member can join the election of this type without any restriction, meaning that no password or invitations are required.
Recommended for elections involving an unlimited number of people.

It is the same as for open election, except that only the people who passed the trust-checking procedure (including the election creator) can join it. This procedure is to ensure that only people who have verified details can take part in the election.
Recommended for elections that need a high degree of trust.