Why run committee elections online?
Committee elections are the highest-stakes vote your society runs. When the process is informal — nominations on WhatsApp, scrutiny in a closed room, paper ballots counted by hand — losers challenge the result and winners lack a mandate.
Five problems online GBE solves
- Unverified nominations — anyone claims candidacy without flat ownership proof.
- Scrutiny disputes — no record of why a nomination was rejected.
- Campaign intimidation — open voting exposes who voted for whom.
- Absent owners excluded — NRIs and travelling members can't participate.
- No formal declaration — results announced verbally with no permanent record.
Plinth enforces phase order, secret ballots, and append-only audit logs from announcement to declaration.