Election results monitoring from polling-station forms
When counting ends, your agents hold the evidence: a signed result form from each polling station. VotePulse turns those photos into a checked internal tally, and tells you which forms a person needs to look at.
Runs in: Campaign Manager Portal and GroundForce · See it alongside every module →
Photos are not a tally
On election night a campaign receives hundreds or thousands of photos of result forms over WhatsApp. Somebody types numbers into a spreadsheet, mistakes creep in, and nobody can say which figure came from which form.
A reliable tally needs three things: every number linked to the photo it came from, the arithmetic of each form checked, and a person reviewing anything the system is unsure about.
What Results monitoring does
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Submission from the station
Agents submit candidate votes, total votes cast and rejected ballots with a photo of the form.
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Photo clean-up
Each photo is scored for quality, the document edges are found and the perspective is corrected.
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Field-by-field reading
Each field on the form is read separately and given a confidence score.
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Arithmetic checks
Valid plus rejected must equal total cast; candidate votes must add up to valid votes; turnout cannot exceed registered voters; negative numbers are flagged.
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Human review
Any form with a failed check or a low-confidence field goes to a reviewer before it counts.
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Internal tally board
Checked results by county, constituency, ward and polling station, updating as forms arrive.
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Evidence trail
Every figure stays linked to the agent, station and photo it came from.
How it works
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Agent submits
The agent photographs the signed form and submits the numbers from GroundForce.
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VotePulse reads and checks
The photo is cleaned, read and checked against the form’s arithmetic.
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A person reviews doubtful forms
Forms with issues are routed to a reviewer with the problem explained.
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The tally updates
Verified results flow into the internal tally board.
What it does not do
We would rather you know the limits before you buy than discover them in the middle of a campaign.
- This is your campaign’s internal tally. Only the IEBC declares official results.
- Form reading is calibrated against real Form 34A, 35A, 36A and 38A samples. Governor (37A) and Woman Representative (39A) forms use the closest layout, so more of them go to manual review.
- Submissions open one week before election day.
Who uses it
- Results and tally teams
- A checked tally instead of a spreadsheet.
- Candidates and lawyers
- Evidence linked to every number.
Software, or software with our team
Results monitoring is included in VotePulse plans, priced by the office you are contesting — see plans and prices. If you would rather have our team set it up and run it with you, our election-day operations consultancy is quoted separately.
Frequently asked questions
Does VotePulse transmit results to the IEBC?
No. The IEBC runs its own results transmission. VotePulse collects your agents’ copies of the forms so your campaign has its own checked record.
Does it use AI to read the forms?
Form reading uses computer vision and optical character recognition, and the checks are plain arithmetic. Anything uncertain goes to a person rather than being trusted automatically.
Which forms does it read?
Polling-station declaration forms for all six offices. Forms 34A, 35A, 36A and 38A have layouts calibrated from real samples; 37A and 39A use the closest layout and get more manual review.
Related modules and guides
- Election-day operations →Run election day from one war room: agent check-ins, incidents, HQ broadcasts, battleground maps, alerts and an internal results tally.
- Polling agent management →Recruit, assign, train and coordinate polling agents: agent database, station assignment, SMS logins, check-in, incidents and results from every station.
- Election risk center →See which polling stations risk going uncovered on election day, from real signals: agent assignment and reported incidents. Not a violence prediction.
- Command Center →One screen for the campaign manager: AI daily brief, readiness score, live field map, calendar, finance and alerts, down to every ward in your race.
- Polling agent guide →What agents must collect at the station.
- Presidential campaigns →A national picture from Form 34A.
VotePulse is an independent campaign technology and consultancy platform. It is not the IEBC and does not declare official election results.