About the Project

Vot Diaspora is a platform that simplifies the electoral guide for the 6th of December elections for citizens. Vot Diaspora is Code for Romania's first ever project, starting with 2016, in order to facilitate access to electoral information for Romanians abroad and foster a more transparent process. 25% of all voters abroad used the app for the 2019 European Parliament elections and over 185.000 voters used it at the 2019 presidential elections.

By accessing votdiaspora.ro, all citizens can check the required documents for voting, the correct procedures for voting either at polling stations or via mail-in ballot and their alotted polling station and the closest route. The website will be available and updated for each new round of elections. All content available on the Vot Diaspora platform is done in collaboration with Observatorul Electoral electoral experts.

Vot Diaspora is part of Code for Romania's electoral ecosystem, and is the fourth app dedicated to the electoral process in our country. Monitorizare Vot is the web and mobile app dedicated to independent electoral observers, the first such app in Romania and the most used app at a global level. Launched in 2016, this has been used for every election or referendum since 2016 and has been used in Poland in 2018 for the first monitored elections in the country. The second app in the ecosystem is Vot Romania, a web app designed for Romanians living in the country, showing them where they can vote and what the correct documents and procedures for voting are. The third app is Rezultate Vot, website launched in 2019 to show real time participation and vote count data that has, since 2020 become a repository of all post-1990 electoral data as well as other features, turning it into a good comparative data tool as well.

Code for Romania is a non-profit organisation developing solutions to solve social issues for free. Founded in 2016, Code for Romania has become the largest civic tech organisation globally through its immense number of solutions and its 3000+ volunteering community. Starting 2023 Code for Romania's solutions support vulnerable people in the entire world and it is the first Romanian NGO to scale internationally.