Election Edge vs TransTally, claim by claim.
What each platform says it does, side by side, in plain terms. We take TransTally's side from their public website. Where they are stronger, we say so first.
“Digitize your campaign. Command election day.”
TransTally is a Nairobi-based web platform with two modules. The Campaign Manager covers the months before the vote: tasks, stakeholders, events, volunteers, finance and compliance. The Election Manager covers election day: agent deployment, results with photo evidence, verification, coverage and a live tally. They sell to candidates, parties, coalitions, media houses and observers. transtally.co.ke
If you need these, TransTally has them and we do not.
- A full Campaign Manager: tasks and approvals, a calendar of rallies and deadlines, stakeholder and volunteer records, and finance, compliance and readiness tracking. Election Edge has none of this.
- Shareable PDF and spreadsheet reports straight from the platform. Election Edge exports CSV and PDF, not a spreadsheet workbook.
- Public reference content: registered-voter counts by county, constituency and ward, an election timeline, guides and a glossary, all free to read.
- Built for media houses and observer groups as well as campaigns.
Built for
Yes. Candidates, parties, coalitions, campaign teams, media houses and election observers, per their site.
Yes. Candidates and parties running one race or many, with a parallel count and a ground game in one workspace.
Capturing the result
Yes. Polling-station result collection with photographic evidence; Form 34 and 34A photos attach to results. Their site describes a web platform and does not name a native mobile app.
Yes. The agent photographs the official results form and keys the figures from the paper, in our app for iOS and Android. Every statutory results form, one per station per race; in Kenya, Form 34A to 39A.
Working with no signal
Not stated. Offline capture is not described on their public site.
Yes. Photos and figures wait on the phone and upload when a connection returns. The app never needs signal to capture.
Ways an agent can submit
Partly. A web-based platform. No USSD, SMS or chat channel is described.
No. The app only. There is no USSD, SMS, or chat-bot channel for sending results.
Who confirms a number
Yes. An approval-only workspace: result forms, receipts and supporting evidence are reviewed before acceptance, with traceable corrections.
Yes. A second person reconciles every figure against the photo before it counts. The agent who uploads can never confirm their own result.
Checks on strange numbers
Partly. Validation and correction controls that flag problems for traceable review. No specific statistical or reconciliation checks are named.
Yes. We catch votes beyond the register, ballot accounting that does not add up, and duplicate form serials outright. We raise Benford's Law and turnout outliers as flags for a person to review, never as proof.
A record no one can change without a trace
Yes. Complete audit trails of who entered what and when, with role-based access. No tamper-evidence mechanism such as hash-chaining is described.
Yes. Every confirmed result goes into an append-only log. Each entry is SHA-256 hash-chained to the one before it, back to the original photo. Each result has a chain-of-custody view.
More than one race
Yes. Party bundles coordinate work across candidates, races and counties.
Yes. A Party workspace runs many races side by side. Stations are shared across races without mixing their counts.
Opinion polls
Not stated. Opinion-poll tracking is not described on their public site.
Yes. Upload the polls you commission or collect. See the trend and the average per race, and lay your own count over them on results night.
Last cycle's results as a baseline
Partly. Publishes 2017 and 2022 election data and registered-voter counts as public reference pages. An in-product, per-station baseline for your own campaign is not described.
Yes. Upload last cycle's results station by station. We flag turnout that drifts from the baseline, and the map shows the swing.
Vote targets per station
Not stated. Per-station vote targets is not described on their public site.
Yes. A target for every polling station, shown on the map against what has been confirmed.
Field mobilization
Yes. Field intelligence and incident capture with urgency, location and evidence, plus stakeholder and volunteer management, inside the Campaign Manager.
Yes. Voter profiles captured offline, support stance per race, issues raised, a support-density map, turnout readiness, and area leaders on record.
Campaign administration
Yes. Tasks and execution, a calendar of events, finance, compliance and readiness tracking, and a command dashboard for the campaign itself.
No. No task manager, event calendar, or finance and compliance tracking. Election Edge covers the field and the count, not the back office.
A public results portal
Not stated. A public results portal is not described on their public site.
No. Your count is private to your campaign. There is no public results page.
Exports
Yes. Shareable PDF and spreadsheet reports, dashboards and maps.
Partly. CSV and PDF exports of results, tallies, and the audit record. No Excel workbook.
Sign-in and data isolation
Partly. Role-based permissions and audit history. Encryption, second-factor sign-in, and data isolation between customers are not described.
Yes. You sign in with an emailed code, with a passkey or an authenticator as the second factor. We isolate each campaign at the database row level and encrypt data in transit and at rest. We built it to line up with the Kenya Data Protection Act and GDPR.
Track record
Partly. Positioned for Kenya 2027. Publishes 2017 and 2022 election data. No client list is shown.
Partly. Launching with Kenya 2027. A free practice sandbox with the full live dashboard is open to invited campaigns today.
“Not stated” means their public site does not describe it. That is not a claim that they lack it.
The jobs where our answer is yes and theirs is not.
- Working with no signal
Photos and figures wait on the phone and upload when a connection returns. The app never needs signal to capture.
- Checks on strange numbers
We catch votes beyond the register, ballot accounting that does not add up, and duplicate form serials outright. We raise Benford's Law and turnout outliers as flags for a person to review, never as proof.
- Opinion polls
Upload the polls you commission or collect. See the trend and the average per race, and lay your own count over them on results night.
- Last cycle's results as a baseline
Upload last cycle's results station by station. We flag turnout that drifts from the baseline, and the map shows the swing.
- Vote targets per station
A target for every polling station, shown on the map against what has been confirmed.
- Sign-in and data isolation
You sign in with an emailed code, with a passkey or an authenticator as the second factor. We isolate each campaign at the database row level and encrypt data in transit and at rest. We built it to line up with the Kenya Data Protection Act and GDPR.
Everything on TransTally's side comes from those pages as they read on that date. If you work at TransTally and something here is out of date, write to hello@election-edge.com and we will fix it. See also all comparisons.
Protect every vote,
from the doorstep to the declaration.
We take on a small number of campaigns and parties each cycle, so access is by invitation. Tell us about your race. We set up a short call, show you the platform live, and get you running if it is a fit.
Approved teams get a sign-in link after a short qualification call.
- 01Tell us about your raceA two-minute form: country, race, and rough scale.
- 02See it liveA short call and a walkthrough of the real platform.
- 03You're set upApproved teams get a sign-in link and onboarding.