Online communities can be a great way to increase awareness of, and participation in, your next election. Higher Logic’s integration with ElectionsOnline makes it an especially useful tool for driving increased voter participation.
Before any election, candidates must be chosen. ElectionsOnline’s Nomination Engine treats this as an inherent part of the election where selected candidates—along with any biographical information—flow right into the final election setup further streamlining the overall election administration process.
ElectionsOnline introduces the ability to associate up to four pieces of custom demographic data with each voter to enable segmenting election results by different demographic groups for business intelligence beyond just who won the election.
Create a new election by copying any prior election. It’s a new feature that replaces and improves upon the old method for creating new elections from saved templates and is available for all elections going forward.
netFORUM, the very popular Association Management System (AMS) from Abila, plays quite nicely with Skypunch’s online voting software thanks to some integration work from Dovelox.
NimbleUser has partnered with ElectionsOnline to integration their flagship product, Nimble AMS, with ElectionsOnline’s industry-leading online voting system. Nimble AMS clients may now provide voters an SSO experience and record who has voted as an additional metric for member engagement.
ElectionsOnline is the only election service provider to offer an API and has been doing so for years. But, the API was SOAP-based. With the new RESTful API, the barrier for integration with the system has lowered and new functionality has been exposed.
This article examines the pros and cons of permitting candidates to submit their biographies using either a free-text model where they may provide whatever they wish, versus requiring them to provide responses to a set of fixed questions provided by the election manager.
Each election now has a checklist associated with it to further foolproof managing an election and give even first-time users the confidence of knowing they have everything on track for a smooth and successful election.
ElectionsOnline and Association Technology Solutions (ATS) have established a business partnership aimed at offering an integration bridge between Evote and the iMIS association management system (AMS) for real-time integration between Evote and your own website/membership system.