---
title: Vote Monitor
type: platform
status: inactive
country: RO
website: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://votemonitor.org/
logo: /assets/org-logos/vote-monitor.png
logo_bg: light
summary: An open-source election observation platform built by Code for Romania —
  allows accredited observers to submit real-time field reports from polling stations,
  replacing paper forms with structured mobile data collection.
concepts:
- democracy-tools
- e-government
- radical-transparency
- end-to-end-verifiable-voting-system
location:
  latitude: 44.4268
  longitude: 26.1025
  name: Bucharest, Romania
activity:
  manual:
    checked: 2026-06-09
    note: Site defunct; last live Wayback capture ~2022. Code for Romania project
      — check code4.ro for successor activity
last_checked: '2026-06-09'
---

Vote Monitor is an open-source election observation tool developed by Code for Romania, a Bucharest-based civic tech organisation. It was created for the 2014 Romanian presidential elections, when civic monitoring organisations needed a faster, more reliable alternative to paper-based observer reporting forms.

The platform provides a mobile app for accredited election observers to submit structured reports — polling station opening procedures, voter turnout counts, irregularities observed — directly from the field in real time. A web dashboard aggregates submissions and provides live monitoring across all reporting stations. The structured data format makes it possible to detect patterns (e.g. clusters of irregularities in specific regions) that would be invisible in unstructured paper reports.

Vote Monitor has been deployed in multiple Romanian elections and exported to other countries. The source code is open and the architecture is designed to be adapted by other election monitoring organisations.

While election observation is a narrower function than governance design, it addresses a foundational problem: the integrity of the process by which citizens choose representatives. Reliable observation infrastructure is a prerequisite for the democratic legitimacy that participatory tools are built on top of.

## Links

- Website: [votemonitor.org](https://www.votemonitor.org)
- Source code: [github.com/code4romania/monitorizare-vot](https://github.com/code4romania/monitorizare-vot)

## See also

- [E-Government](../concepts/e-government.md)
- [Radical Transparency](../concepts/radical-transparency.md)
- [End-to-End Verifiable Voting System](../concepts/end-to-end-verifiable-voting-system.md)