About the project

Vot Romania is a platform that simplifies the local elections guide for the late september 2020 elections and translates it in layman‘s terms. Vot Romania is Code for Romania‘s fourth project designed to facilitate citizens’ access to voting information and help foster more transparency for elections.

By accessing votromania.ro all citizens will be able to check what the necessary documents and procedures are for voting and what polling station they are registered with. THe website will be updated with the latest information for each round of elections. The current Vot Romania website content has been developed in partnership with Observator Electoral experts.

Vot Romania is part of the elections ecosystem developed by Code For Romania, as the fourth app dedicated to the electoral process in our country. Vote Monitor is a web and mobile app for independent electoral observers - the first elections monitoring app in Romania, and the most used one in the world. Launched in 2016, Vote Monitor has been used for every round of Romanian elections since and has been deployed in 2018 in Poland for the first elections in the country where independent observers could be deployed. Vot Diaspora is our second app in the ecosystem, a web app that helps Romanians abroad find out how and where they can cast their ballots, what documents they need and what the proper procedures are. For the 2019 European Parliament elections, as many as 25% of all voters abroad used Vot Diaspora and for the last round of presidential elections 185.000 voters used votdiaspora.ro to get informed. Our third electoral solution is Rezultate Vot, launched in 2019 for the European Parliament elections, a platform that shows vote participation in real time and displays election results after polls close. The 2020 version of Rezultate Vot will include Romania‘s entire post-communist electoral history and other functionalities never before implemented in Romania, turning it from the fastest and easiest election results portal into a comparative election data analysis tool.

All electoral ecosystem apps are developed pro bono by Code for Romania volunteers as part of Civic Labs, one of our flagship programs. Through Civic Labs our NGO researches and delivers civic tech solutions for societal issues in six major fields - education, healthcare, environment, vulnerable groups, transparency and civic engagement.

Code for Romania is a non profit Organization that develops digital solutions to social issues pro bono. Established in 2016, Code for Romania currently has over 1700 volunteers from every corner of the IT sector, who have developed dozens of web and mobile apps, such as the Covid-19 ecosystem știrioficiale.ro, rohelp.ro, redirectioneaza.ro and many others.