The operating layer

How it works

  1. Register your team.

    Add staff and field agents one at a time, or bring a spreadsheet and bulk import hundreds at once. Everyone activates their own account over a text message; nobody at your organization ever sees or hands over anyone else's password or PIN.

  2. Set up your ballot.

    Positions, parties, candidates, and polling-unit geography, entered once, reused everywhere.

  3. Agents report from the field.

    Whatever signal they have that day: the app, SMS, voice, or paper collated by your ward desk.

  4. Watch it reconcile, with a record you can show your name to.

    Every submission is tied to a tamper-evident audit trail from the moment it arrives.

Built for

Political parties and candidate campaigns

Coordinating their own polling agents.

Civil-society election-observer organizations

Running an independent parallel count.

Not built for individual voters or the general public to submit anything. Agents are registered and enrolled directly by their own organization's admin team, never by us.

Inside Custody

What's actually in it

Multi-channel field reporting

App, SMS, voice, and paper, all feeding the same pipeline.

Live, reconciled results

Per party, per polling unit, LGA, and state, updating as submissions arrive.

Tamper-evident audit trail

Every state-changing action is hash-chained; a signed chain-of-custody export is one click away.

Bulk onboarding

Staff, agents, ballot, and geography, from a spreadsheet, with a preview before anything is created.

Duty assignment and compliance tracking

The exact checklist and deadline, applied to one agent or an entire state at once.

A confidential concern channel

Routes straight to your organization's legal contact, bypassing the normal reporting chain, for the one kind of report that shouldn't go through it.

Important boundary:Custody is an information, evidence, and coordination layer. It does not replace electoral authorities, certify official results, collect ballot choices, or publish unreviewed allegations.
Custody.

Nothing Gets Lost.

The platform Nigerian political parties, campaigns, and election observers use to capture what their own agents see in the field.

Not official election results infrastructure.

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Custody is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) or the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Nigerian flag appears as a recurring watermark across the platform, and a separate original mark inspired by the form of Nigeria's coat of arms appears on the Security and integrity page; neither is the official coat of arms, an official seal, or government insignia, and neither implies endorsement.

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