How we protect a result

The checks behind every poll, what they can’t do, and how to read what a poll tells you.

How your vote stays private How we handle misuse

Why people and organisations can take a Bynesh poll seriously

Reading a poll means considering how it limits duplicate voting and automated abuse. Check its public page before sharing a screenshot: a copied or cropped image can leave out the question or other context.

No single safeguard does that on its own, so we run several at once and keep adding to them as people find new ways to cheat.

How we protect a poll

One vote per account: Each eligible account can receive one set of voting credentials per poll. This does not prove that different accounts belong to different people.
Real accounts: Confirmed email and phone numbers, account history, device signals and rate limits help us tell people apart from fake accounts.
Bots and coordinated fakes: Automated traffic, sudden bursts of votes, attempts to vote twice, spam and coordinated campaigns can be slowed, stopped or removed.
A person for the hard cases: Software catches patterns, but some cases need judgement. Unusual polls, accounts, Pages or results can go to a moderator.
Your answer stays yours: We record when voting credentials are issued to your account. That record does not prove your vote was accepted, and public results do not list accounts alongside answers.

When something looks wrong

Voting twice, automated traffic, suspicious accounts, pretending to be someone else’s Page, spam campaigns and coordinated pushes can all bend a result. When we see them, we can hold a poll’s totals back, hide breakdowns with too few voters to be safe, put the poll under review, restrict who can vote, remove the fake activity or suspend the accounts behind it.

Protecting a poll doesn’t mean exposing your vote

We record when your account receives voting credentials to prevent a second set for the same poll. Your answer is handled separately. Issuing credentials does not prove that your vote was accepted. Published results show combined counts, without a list of accounts and their answers.

When totals appear

Most polls show their totals when they close. Some show running totals while they’re open, if the person who posted the poll chose that. Either way, results are available only once at least 30 people have voted, or 100 on sensitive topics, and not while we’re checking the poll. Until then the poll page shows no result numbers at all.

How to read a Bynesh result

A result is how the people who voted answered one question at one point in time. Read it with the wording, the answers, who asked it, when, and the poll’s status. A poll can be in one of three states:

Open. People can vote, and the usual protections are running.
Being checked. We’re looking at unusual activity or reports before we treat the result as final. Read it with care until the check is done.
Limited. Manipulation, abuse or a safety concern affected the poll, so we may show it to fewer people, restrict who can vote or pause it.

What a poll can and can’t prove

Bynesh isn’t an official election system, and a poll isn’t a survey of a whole country. It tells you what the people who saw it and chose to answer think. That’s still useful, as long as it’s read with the question, the timing and who was likely to answer.

NGOs, newsrooms, creators and communities use polls to hear from their audience quickly. One shareable page keeps the wording, the answers, who asked and the totals together. Include its link when sharing a result so other people can check the context.