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August 4, 2021 by David Simms
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Email Delivery Best PracticesVoters won’t vote in an election they don’t know about. Therefore, on an election’s start date, you should announce the election to your voters. This article is an executive summary of email delivery within the Skypunch system and presents some best practices you can take for communicating with voters via email.

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July 7, 2021 by David Simms
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8 Tips for Formatting Candidate BiographiesElectionsOnline’s online voting software permits attaching candidate biograhies, including photos, to the ballot which an election administrator may freely edit at any time prior to and even during an election. These eight best practices ensure those biographies present to the voter in the most useful way possible.

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June 2, 2021 by David Simms
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What Makes ElectionsOnline the Leading InnovatorThe simple answer to the question, what makes ElectionsOnline the leading innovator, is, well, innovation. But the claim isn’t just puffery. There’s a valid case to be made for ElectionsOnline being the election service other election services want to be when they grow up.

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May 5, 2021 by David Simms
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Ballot VerificationTo complement the ability election managers have to perform election verification against the entire collection of ballots in an election, individual voters now have a ballot verification wizard they may step through to be absolutely certain their ballot has been captured; has not been altered in any way; and is being included in the election results tabulation.

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April 7, 2021 by David Simms
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Bona fide election verification and certification made possible by the immutable and cryptographically verifiable ledger database at the heart of the ElectionsOnline voting system. Learn more about this ElectionsOnline exclusive.

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March 3, 2021 by David Simms
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Ledger Database for Ballot StorageThere has been a change to how ballots are stored within the ElectionsOnline system utilizing new technology that, while evolutionary with respect to how it came to be, is truly revolutionary in what is now possible—that being immutable and cryptographically verifiable ballots for unequaled certainty in your election results.

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April 20, 2020 by David Simms , President
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Voter Roster Downloads There is nothing new about clients having the ability to retrieve their voter roster for an election at any point during or after an election, but there is something very new about how that roster is now generated and the fact that all downloads are archived for the duration of an election so they may be retrieved well after their original creation.

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May 9, 2019 by David Simms , Skypunch Technology
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Website RedesignElectionsOnline has a new website with a totally new look and feel. But the baby was not thrown out with the bath water. The tools that have made managing elections so easy over the years remain intact, so the learning curve for clients visiting this site for the first time... well, there really is no learning curve. Just enjoy the shiny, new site!

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April 3, 2019 by David Simms
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Candidate Biographies Switch to MarkdownCandidates have long been able to load their own biographies into the system, but the tool used for doing that has switched from a rich-text editor to Markdown. The switch completely resolves some issues with a rich-text editor and also ensures absolute uniformity across all biographies.

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March 25, 2019 by David Simms , President , Skypunch Technology
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New Pricing in EffectElectionsOnline has revamped the pricing model for its online voting system making the service available in three different editions: 1. Standard, 2. Professional, 3. Enterprise. Each with a progressively more complete collection of features so clients pay only for what they use.

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