Municipality of Bitola — Council E-Voting

City council decisions get formally voted on, and the Municipality of Bitola wanted that process to move online without losing any of the trust that comes with a public, verifiable vote. This is a government system used to make binding civic decisions, so the bar for "good enough" sits considerably higher than it would for a typical business application.

Councillors sign in with individually assigned access, cast their vote on whichever agenda item is on the floor, and see the result tallied and recorded in a way that can be reviewed and verified afterward — no one, including whoever built the system, can quietly alter a result after the fact.

I built the application from the ground up, but the real work sat around the question of "does the vote get recorded correctly, and can we prove it": hardening the server the system runs on, tightly controlling exactly who can do what inside it, and designing the underlying data so that every vote leaves a clear, auditable trail. It’s a project where the most important engineering is the part nobody ever sees.