Comment Vote adds a missing layer to secure online elections: a digital protocol directly in the voting system. Election managers and organizers can document irregularities, roll-call changes or technical incidents right at the vote – time-stamped, user-bound, and immutable.
In many organisations, legally safe online voting is not only about the final result, but also about how you can document what happened during the vote itself. Who was present, who left, which irregularities were reported – all of this matters for traceability and protection against challenges.
With Comment Vote, NemoVote adds a structured way for admins and organisers to add comments to a vote, after the voting process. Comments are time-stamped, linked to the person who made them, and cannot be edited or deleted. This turns the voting system into a digital election protocol instead of a pure “black-box result”.
From a legal and compliance perspective, it is not enough to know what the result of a vote was. For challenge-proof online elections, you also need to be able to show how the election was conducted: who was allowed to vote, which irregularities occurred, and how they were handled.
In the analogue world, this information usually lives in handwritten minutes or a separate protocol. In online elections, however, this creates a gap: the voting system knows the numbers, while the context sits somewhere else. If you want full traceability of the voting process, you need both in one place.
Comment Vote closes this gap by bringing structured comments directly into the election system. This improves the traceability of the voting process and supports protection against challenges when decisions are scrutinised later on.
Comment Vote is intentionally simple to use and strict in how it records information.
The initial version of Comment Vote existed as an idea and prototype very early in NemoVote’s history – but it stayed on the bench for years. It became a priority when our customer GO! onderwijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap requested it as a bylaw requirement for their elections.
GO!’s bylaws require election managers to document any irregularities directly in the election record – for example when one delegate accuses another of fraud, when eligibility is questioned, or when other issues arise during the vote. For their legal and compliance teams, this documentation is a crucial part of the election, not a “nice to have”.
As Isabel from GO! put it:
Beyond the GO! implementation, Comment Vote opens up several practical use cases for legally safe online voting.
This helps explain why vote counts or quorums may have changed between motions, and it supports roll-call based documentation when needed.
Comment Vote is not meant to replace your full meeting minutes. But it is a key building block of the digital election record inside NemoVote.
Together, this turns NemoVote from a pure voting engine into a documented decision process. For legal teams and compliance officers, this improves the traceability of the voting process and supports greater resilience against formal challenges.
Comment Vote works hand in hand with NemoVote’s Sealed Voting feature:
This means that even in highly sensitive elections, you can keep the results protected until the right moment – while still having a complete, time-stamped log of all relevant events surrounding the vote.
Comment Vote is a small feature with a big impact for legal and compliance teams. It gives election managers the ability to document irregularities, presence changes and decisions inside the voting system – not just in separate minutes.
By combining sealed results, secure voting, and an immutable comment history, NemoVote strengthens both the traceability of online elections and the confidence of everyone involved. If your bylaws or governance standards require a documented election process, Comment Vote is the missing piece that turns digital voting into a truly challenge-ready solution.