Press Releases

Keeping up with Votem®.

Oct. 1, 2018

Cleveland, OH – October 1, 2018 Votem is pleased to announce the acquisition of Everyone Counts with offices across the United States, Australia/New Zealand, and Canada. “Both Votem and Everyone Counts were founded with a similar mission to make voting more accessible, secure and transparent with the shared objective to instill confidence in voters…

Jun. 16, 2018

United States, Los Angeles An innovative voter-centered election system will modernize the way Los Angeles County citizens will cast their ballots. In partnership with Smartmatic, who was awarded a contract to assist LA County in the design, construction, and deployment of the new voting solution, Votem will facilitate the development of the new system’s interactive…

Mar. 26, 2018

Votem Launches Proof of Vote® – A Blockchain End-to-End Voter Verified Digital Voting System Protocol Ensuring the verifiability, security, and transparency of an election. Votem is releasing its Proof  of Vote® protocol, a blueprint for end-to-end voter verified (E2EVV) digital voting systems that uses blockchain to ensure the verifiability, security, and transparency of an election, to…

Mar. 19, 2018

Votem to be a Founding Member in Dept. of Homeland Security Council on Elections CLEVELAND, OHIO USA Votem is proud to announce its participation in the Department of Homeland Security’s Sector Coordinating Council (SCC) for the Election Infrastructure Subsector. The Council, which is a cooperative effort between the DHS, the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), The National…

Mar. 7, 2018

Votem announces its partnership with Civic to bring the first-ever decentralized KYC process to the VAST Token Public Presale CLEVELAND, OHIO USA Votem, the blockchain-based mobile voting platform, has announced a partnership with Civic to launch the first-ever decentralized KYC process ever. Civic is a blockchain identity-verification technology that allows consumers to authorize the use…

Nov. 28, 2017

CLEVELAND, NOVEMBER 28, 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Votem Corp has announced the addition of Dr. Emin Gün Sirer to their Technical Board of Advisors. Dr. Sirer is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and Co-Director of the Initiative for Cryptocurrency and Smart Contracts (IC3) who brings years of experience in Blockchain systems…

Aug. 29, 2017

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Silver Spring, Md. – The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) today announced that Votem Corporation has been officially registered to participate in the commission’s Voting System Testing & Certification Program. The designation follows an EAC determination that the Cleveland, Ohio-based company meets all of the requirements noted in its certification Program Manual. Votem…

Mar. 13, 2017

Alex is a seasoned financial executive, entrepreneur, investor and thought leader. He is the CEO of Northwest Passage Ventures, an advisory firm and consultancy. Alex is a founding member of the International Monetary Fund’s special advisory group on fintech and the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Blockchain. He also sits on the advisory board of Elections Canada, the independent non-partisan agency responsible for conducting federal elections and referendums in Canada…

Mar. 9, 2017

Bob Stewart is joining Votem as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and a member of its senior leadership team effective immediately. Bob most recently served as the Chief Operating Officer and elected member of the Board of Directors of Sonavation, Inc. Bob was instrumental in turning the company’s products around, focusing efforts on the delivery of the company’s IDkey consumer and enterprise devices containing, industrial and mobile fingertip biometric identification and access control products, solutions and services…

Jan. 19, 2017

Votem® and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announce the successful completion of the ‘Fan Vote’ for the 2017 Inductees. Votem’s cutting-edge “Blockchain” platform powered the successful fan vote enabling the Rock Hall to easily collect votes from around the world without the risk of ‘software bots’ falsely adding to the vote counts.

Feb. 15, 2016

Votem announced the acquisition of the mobile voting business from Michigan-based, Konnech Inc. This business unit and related product line called “ABVote”, brings Votem a set of leading voting systems products in use by many progressive jurisdictions including the State of Montana and Washington, DC.

Jul. 10, 2015

Votem announced the launch of the $230,000 Mobile Voting Challenge on the InnoCentive global open innovation platform which aims to give democracy back to the people by allowing them to conveniently, safely and securely participate in the electoral process.