Online Voting Services

The Vendor is required to provide for the deployment and support of a fully hosted online voting platform for a portion of the 2026 Municipal Election.
- Municipal elections in state are conducted under the following core principles:
•    Voter Confidentiality: The secrecy and confidentiality of individual votes is paramount, and voters’ choices must remain private and anonymous at all times.
•    Fairness: The election must be fair and non-biased, with all voters and candidates treated fairly and consistently.
•    Accessibility: The election must be accessible to all eligible voters under conditions free from discrimination.
•    Verifiability: There must be mechanisms in place to verify that a proper majority vote decides the election by ensuring, as far as reasonably possible, that valid votes be counted, and invalid votes be rejected.
•    Process and Results Integrity: The integrity of the process must be maintained throughout the election in such a way that voters, candidates, and other stakeholders can have confidence that the results of the election reflect the votes cast.
- Provide an integrated online voting platform that upholds the highest standards of these principles to achieve the following primary goals:
•    Enhance the efficiency of the County’s voting process;
•    Protect the integrity of the County’s election process;
•    Provide greater access to independence in the voting process for persons with disabilities;
•    Improve convenience and customer service for voters; and
•    Strengthen confidence in the use of electronic voting methods for voters.
- The complete voting platform, incorporating the online voting system options (collectively, the “Solution”), must be capable of providing high service availability for all eligible voters, scaling to meet the demands of peak voting times, and completing the tabulation of results promptly after the legislated close of voting on the final voting day. 
- The Solution should utilize a one-step voter authentication model.
- The Solution must also securely and seamlessly integrate with the online voters’ list management application, datafix’s voterview, to support the integrity of the voting process through real-time voter additions, corrections, and strike-offs.
- The Solution shall be fully cloud hosted by the Supplier and include the provision and management of all communications and storage infrastructure to ensure a secure, reliable, and effective Solution
- The voting period is expected to run for approximately ten (10) to fourteen (14) calendar days, prior to October 26th, 2026, Voting Day (the “Voting Period”).
- On Friday, October 23rd, 2026, prior to voting day, the solution will be shut down at midnight, with the exception of the voting assistance centres where the election officials will shut down the devices after 8:00 pm once all voters in the centre have finished voting and confirmed by election staff.

- Contract Period/Term: 2 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: November 20, 2025