Awkward questions, answered up front.
We answer the hard questions here so we do not have to answer them ad-hoc in a sales call. If something here is not enough, raise it on the qualification call.
Can a campaign manipulate this to fake results?
No. Election Edge is not the official tally - it is your campaign's parallel operational record, reconcilable against the IEBC source. Inside the platform, separation of duties is enforced: the agent who uploads a Form 34A cannot also confirm it, and the supervisor who confirms cannot also export. Every state change is written to an append-only audit log with the user, timestamp, and device. If someone tries to alter a number, the audit trail records the attempt.
What if a field agent loses their phone or it is taken?
Each agent is provisioned to a specific phone number and a specific station set. From the manager dashboard you can revoke that agent's access immediately, and any submissions in flight from the device are quarantined until a supervisor reviews them. The audit trail records when access was revoked and by whom, so a court can see exactly when the device stopped being trusted.
Who owns the data we put in?
You do. Election Edge does not sell, analyze, or republish your campaign's records. You can export the full operational record at any time in machine-readable formats. If you ever leave the platform, your data is yours to take with you.
We are running multiple races at once. Does that work?
Yes. Election Edge is station-scoped by design. A presidential campaign, a senatorial campaign, and a county assembly campaign can all coexist in the platform without leaking data to each other. The same polling station can appear in multiple campaign workspaces, but each campaign sees only its own assignments, submissions, and totals.
What about counties with poor or no internet?
The agent mobile flow is offline-first. Captures, photos, and confirmations are queued locally and sync when the device reconnects. For very low-bandwidth contexts we are wiring up an SMS fallback so an agent can submit core numbers via text. No part of the chain assumes a perfect network.
How is this different from other election-tech vendors?
We do not name competitors and we do not run partisan campaigns. The differences that matter to a buyer: every record carries an audit trail and an RFC 3161 timestamp, exports are designed to be defensible in court, the platform is open about its failure modes (we publish them), and we onboard a small cohort of campaigns per cycle so each one gets engineering attention.
What happens to our data if our campaign loses?
Nothing changes. Your access continues through the petition window and beyond. You can export, archive, or simply keep using the platform to study what happened. We do not delete a losing campaign's data and we do not gate exports on the outcome.