A student guild election is a high-turnout, high-scrutiny event: hundreds or thousands of students voting in a narrow window, candidates and their supporters watching every step, and a result that has to hold up the moment it's announced.
Paper ballots in a student election mean queues outside polling stations, a manual count that stretches into the night, and a result that candidates and their camps immediately start picking apart — because nobody but the counting committee actually saw the ballots.
Moving to a WhatsApp poll or a Google Form doesn't fix that: neither one verifies that a voter is an actual registered student, neither one stops one person from voting from three different accounts, and a screenshot of a spreadsheet convinces nobody who doesn't like the outcome.
Qura's student election system has been used to run real elections at university student associations, including at Kabarak University — the process below is the one those elections actually ran on, not a hypothetical.
Upload your student list or connect an institutional email domain.
Students confirm identity by institutional email or phone.
Web for smartphones, USSD for basic phones — one ballot, once.
Live turnout and results stream in as votes are cast.
Every voter gets a receipt they can check independently.
Yes. Voters are verified against your student register — by institutional email domain, phone number, or a list you provide — before they can cast a ballot.
USSD sessions are short and stateless by design; a dropped session doesn't record a partial vote, and the student can simply dial in again to continue or restart.
Yes. Voter categories let you scope positions to specific schools, faculties, or years, so a student only sees the ballot relevant to them.