Long queues, man­u­al bal­lot count­ing and de­layed elec­tion re­sults could soon be­come a thing of the past for mem­ber-based or­gan­i­sa­tions with the in­tro­duc­tion of iV­ote Live, a dig­i­tal vot­ing plat­form de­vel­oped in Trinidad and To­ba­go to mod­ernise elec­tions and mem­ber par­tic­i­pa­tion.

The plat­form, cre­at­ed by Rose IT Ser­vices Ltd, was un­veiled Tues­day dur­ing a hy­brid event at the Leon Agos­ti­ni Con­fer­ence Hall, Cham­ber Build­ing, West­moor­ings. At­ten­dees on­line and in per­son were giv­en a live demon­stra­tion of how the sys­tem works.

The pre­sen­ta­tion walked par­tic­i­pants through com­mon elec­tion chal­lenges faced by or­gan­i­sa­tions, in­clud­ing lengthy reg­is­tra­tion, lim­it­ed mem­ber par­tic­i­pa­tion, ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty bar­ri­ers for those un­able to at­tend in per­son, man­u­al vote count­ing, con­cerns over ver­i­fi­ca­tion and the need to pro­duce ac­cu­rate re­sults quick­ly.