---
name: "belenios-tool"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "belenios-tool"
version: "3.0+dfsg-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/belenios-tool"
---

# belenios-tool(1)

election management tool

## NAME

belenios-tool - election management tool

## SYNOPSIS

**belenios-tool** \[*COMMAND*\] …

## MORE INFORMATION

This command is part of the Belenios command-line tool.

To get more help on a specific subcommand, run:

**belenios-tool** *COMMAND* **--help**

See *https://www.belenios.org/*.

## COMMANDS

- **archive** *COMMAND* …

  manage archives

- **bench** *COMMAND* …

  benchmarking commands

- **election** *COMMAND* …

  election management commands

- **measure** \[*OPTION*\]…

  measure a directory

- **method** *COMMAND* …

  compute result with specific counting methods

- **setup** *COMMAND* …

  election setup commands

- **sha256-b64** \[*OPTION*\]…

  compute SHA256 of standard input and encode it in Base64Compact

## COMMON OPTIONS

- **--help**\[=*FMT*\] (default=**auto**)

  Show this help in format *FMT*. The value *FMT* must be one of **auto**, **pager**, **groff** or **plain**. With **auto**, the format is **pager** or **plain** whenever the **TERM** env var is **dumb** or undefined.

- **--version**

  Show version information.

## EXIT STATUS

**belenios-tool** exits with:

- 0

  on success.

- 123

  on indiscriminate errors reported on standard error.

- 124

  on command line parsing errors.

- 125

  on unexpected internal errors (bugs).