003  Monitorizare Vot

 Participation for Romania: 
Digitalizing the election monitoring process

 Solution is live 

Romanian poll watching was, before Monitorizare Vot (Vote Monitor), a pen on paper affair. There were no video, photo or audio recordings that could be distributed in real time from the polling stations, and handwritten reports were centralized weeks later, making any findings simply post-factum observations.

Voting Monitor is the first election monitoring application in Romania and one of the few used worldwide. The app provides an understanding of the evolution of elections in Romania in real time. For the first time, NGOs receive through their accredited observers real-time reports on what is happening in the field, allowing them to provide support to their observers and react in a timely manner when problems or irregularities are reported.

Vote Monitor consists of:

1. a native mobile application (iOS and Android) through which  observers can easily report back to their respective NGOs on election day;
   a platform for NGOs that centralizes all the information sent by observers in real time;