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POLYAS is a company that makes software for online voting solutions. The company is based in Kassel, Germany.[1]

POLYAS was founded in 1996 by Wolfgang Jung and Kai Reinhard.[2] The first online election using POLYAS happened in Finland in the summer of 1996. About 30,000 people voted in three different languages.

Until 2012, POLYAS was a project of the Micromata GmbH company.[3] In 2012, it became its own company.[4] The company started being used more for university elections after 2012.[5] In 2016, the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) gave POLYAS a certificate.[6]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, political parties started using POLYAS for their meetings and votes. In 2025, the SPD party used it for members to vote on a coalition agreement.[7]

Starting in 2023, POLYAS representatives began supporting the legalization of digital works council elections.[8][9] The company also publicly supports digitalization of federal elections.[10]

Products

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POLYAS offers several products for different types of voting and features that allow organizations to personalize elections according to their specific rules. The company provides online voting systems for official elections, live voting tools for real-time decisions at meetings and assemblies, a nomination and registration platform for registering and choosing candidates, and a self-service platform where organizations can set up elections by themselves without help from POLYAS staff.[11][12]

References

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  1. ↑ "POLYAS". Democracy Technologies. Retrieved 2026-01-09.
  2. ↑ e.V, CAST. "CAST e.V. |". cast-forum.de (in German). Retrieved 2026-01-09.
  3. ↑ "MICROMATA » Mehr als Softwareentwicklung". Micromata (in German). Retrieved 2026-01-09.
  4. ↑ Leitmeyer, Felix (2022-04-12). "Three new managing directors for Polyas". www.startbase.com. Retrieved 2026-01-09.
  5. ↑ Wind, Peter; Klopper, Wim; Helgaker, Trygve (2002). "Second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory with terms linear in the interelectronic coordinates and exact evaluation of three-electron integrals". Theoretical Chemistry Accounts: Theory, Computation, and Modeling (Theoretica Chimica Acta) (in German). 107 (3): 173. doi:10.1007/s00214-001-0318-6. ISSN 1432-881X.
  6. ↑ "BSI-DSZ-CC-0862-V2-2021". Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) (in German). Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik. Retrieved 9 January 2026.
  7. ↑ "BSI-DSZ-CC-0862-V2-2021". Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) (in German). Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik. Retrieved 9 January 2026.
  8. ↑ "Deutscher Bundestag - Digitale Betriebsratsarbeit und Stärkung der Tarifbindung". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2026-01-09.
  9. ↑ "Lobbyregistereintrag "POLYAS GmbH"". Lobbyregister beim Deutschen Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2026-01-09.
  10. ↑ e.V, Bitkom (2021-12-01). "Podcast Wann können wir den Bundestag online wählen, Kai Reinhard (Co-Founder Polyas)? | Bitkom e. V." www.bitkom.org (in German). Retrieved 2026-01-09.
  11. ↑ "Wählerregistrierung auf der Registrierungsplattform". POLYAS (in German). Retrieved 2026-01-09.
  12. ↑ "MICROMATA » Mehr als Softwareentwicklung". Micromata (in German). Retrieved 2026-01-09.
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