The challenge
The Coordination Council unites democratic organizations that cannot operate safely inside Belarus. Members are dispersed and some are at real personal risk, so the election had to resist interference and protect voters absolutely, while still being credible to the international community.
Requirements
The vote needed structural neutrality - no single actor able to control results or unmask voters - genuine cryptographic secrecy, resistance to government interference, and supervision by international observers.
How Vocdoni helped
Vocdoni's architecture meant no single actor, including Vocdoni, held the keys to results or to individual ballots. Cryptographic secrecy protected voters as a matter of fact, not policy, and the process was supervised by international observers.
Results
6,723 members in exile cast their votes under the supervision of seven international observers, in a process that was resistant to government interference by design. For this movement, that structural neutrality was the difference between a vote that could happen and one that could not.