Voatz

Voatz is a for-profit, private company that has built Internet electronic voting applications. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Voters in the U.S. states of Utah, Colorado, and West Virginia have used the Voatz app to cast ballots in statewide elections. In a 2018 pilot project for West Virginia, using Voatz, American voters submitted ballots from 29 countries.

In 2020, Voatz said it was subjected to security audits by independent technology firms, but was not forthcoming with the results. For example, when reporters have reached out to auditors they did not hear back, and Voatz has insisted that these same companies sign non-disclosure agreements prior to investigating the company.

In 2020, a report by MIT researchers identified a number of high-severity vulnerabilities in Voatz's architecture. which Voatz denied. A follow-on security assessment, paid for by Voatz itself, was released by the security auditing firm Trail of Bits, confirming the MIT researchers' results, and another 48 technical issues were reported (plus 31 threat model findings for a total of 79 findings), a third of which were rated 'high severity.' 8 of the 48 technical issues were addressed.

Voatz was created by Nimit Sawhney in 2014, and was developed as a side project at a SXSW hackathon. As of October 2019, the startup has conducted over 31 pilots and completed a $7 million Series A in June.