Election Edge vs Votrack, claim by claim.
What each platform says it does, side by side, in plain terms. We take Votrack's side from their public website. Where they are stronger, we say so first.
“Secure, real-time platform for independent vote tracking across all electoral positions”
Votrack is a Kenyan parallel-tally platform for the six elective positions, from president to MCA. Agents submit results through a mobile-first web portal, a USSD code, or a Telegram bot, with GPS and photo evidence. Each customer runs on an isolated database pre-loaded with the IEBC register. A campaign can publish its results to a live public portal. votrack.co.ke
If you need these, Votrack has them and we do not.
- Three submission channels: a web portal, USSD for any phone with no internet, and a Telegram bot. Election Edge has one channel, its app.
- Live public results portals per election, which Election Edge does not offer.
- Ran public portals for two 2026 parliamentary by-elections, so the platform has been exercised on real polling days before 2027.
- Excel export and a password-protected, encrypted archive built for a court file. Election Edge exports CSV and PDF.
- GPS on every submission and QR-verified agent badges.
Built for
Yes. Candidates and independent observers, for any of the six elective positions.
Yes. Candidates and parties running one race or many, with a parallel count and a ground game in one workspace.
Capturing the result
Yes. Photo of the statutory form (34A to 39A) with GPS through the web portal or Telegram. USSD carries the figures only, with no photo.
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
Partly. USSD works on any phone with no internet, for the figures. The web portal runs in a phone browser; an offline queue for photos is not described.
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
Yes. Mobile-first web portal, USSD, and a Telegram bot.
No. The app only. There is no USSD, SMS, or chat-bot channel for sending results.
Who confirms a number
Partly. Submissions carry a PIN and OTP verification. A second-person review of each figure against the photo is not described.
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
Not stated. Statistical or reconciliation checks on incoming figures is not described on their public site.
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. An action audit log with timestamps, device and IP, and an encrypted court-ready archive. No hash-chaining or other tamper-evidence mechanism 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
Partly. Tracks all six positions. Their site describes an isolated database per candidate rather than one workspace for a party's many races.
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. Pre-loaded with the IEBC register and voter counts, and their blog analyses 2022 results by area. A per-station baseline inside your own dashboard 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
No. A tally platform. Incident reporting with photos is included; voter contact and mobilization tools are not described.
Yes. Voter profiles captured offline, support stance per race, issues raised, a support-density map, turnout readiness, and area leaders on record.
Campaign administration
Not stated. Campaign administration is not described on their public site.
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
Yes. Live public portals per election with results, turnout and station status, drilling down to ward level.
No. Your count is private to your campaign. There is no public results page.
Exports
Yes. Excel export, password-protected court archives, and status-report images for sharing.
Partly. CSV and PDF exports of results, tallies, and the audit record. No Excel workbook.
Sign-in and data isolation
Yes. Isolated database per customer, encrypted submissions, OTP for sensitive actions, automatic session expiry, and full audit logging.
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
Yes. Public portals for two 2026 parliamentary by-elections, in Nyandarua and Narok counties.
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.
- Who confirms a number
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
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.
- More than one race
A Party workspace runs many races side by side. Stations are shared across races without mixing their counts.
- 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.
- Field mobilization
Voter profiles captured offline, support stance per race, issues raised, a support-density map, turnout readiness, and area leaders on record.
Everything on Votrack's side comes from those pages as they read on that date. If you work at Votrack 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.