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Categorized as: Election Tips

I’ll not keep you in suspense until the end of the article to answer the question of what day of the week is best for an organization to begin its election. The answer is, it depends. And the thing it depends on most is your own organization and anything specific to it. In a previous […]

Categorized as: Election Tips

The Skypunch online voting software has long supported the ability for clients to configure a ballot that displays in up to three different languages. When conducting an election fully hosted on the Skypunch website, as opposed to integrated into your own, the ballot displays to all voters in the languages chosen by the election administrator. […]

Categorized as: Election Tips, Product Development

For years, ElectionsOnline has supported the ability to assign voters to either a voter group and/or a special interest group (SIG) as a way of displaying a certain set of positions to some voters, while other voters see different positions. Depending on the criteria used to place voters into different groups, that could result in […]

Categorized as: Election Tips

The online voting service from Skypunch Technology permits displaying different ballots to different voters based on a voter’s profile. Two tools are available to do this called voter groups and special interest groups (SIGs) which may be used either alone, or together to provide the ultimate in flexibility to handle absolutely any situation that comes along. While […]

Categorized as: Election Tips

Skypunch provides the ability to send email announcements to voters on the opening day of an election and reminders during the course of the election to those who have not voted. If you use this feature, you can and should also take advantage of the failed email report that becomes available 24 hours after the initial mailing. This […]

Categorized as: Election Tips

The following scenario happens too frequently. An organization creates an account at Skypunch Technology; the point of contact for that account leaves; that person’s replacement comes on board and is assigned the responsibility of managing an election and creates a new account instead of using that organization’s existing account. The system does not permit two […]

Categorized as: Election Tips

Homeowner associations (HOAs) need to elect a board of directors each year. This election generally occurs at an annual meeting and involves casting and counting ballots of the homeowners in attendance along with any ballots that may have been cast by a proxy prior to the annual meeting. Obviously care must be taken in order […]

Categorized as: Election Tips

On a Board of Directors, it’s pretty common knowledge what the roles of President, Treasurer, Secretary and Director are. But occasionally something is voted on that requires a little explanation. This is almost always the case for things like referendums for changes to bylaws and the like. For these occasions, ElectionsOnline’s online voting software supports […]

Categorized as: Election Tips

This is less of a tip and more of an instruction. More precisely, an instruction to follow the instructions detailed in Section Two of the User Manual about how to conduct testing prior to the start of an election. Of course this wouldn’t be included here at all, but for those occasions where clients started […]

Categorized as: Election Tips

Host your election with Skypunch Technology and: These are all very good reasons to host your election on the Skypunch, but this post examines some very good reasons to integrate the service into your own web site using the API (Application Programming Interface). For those who aren’t aware, it is possible to set up an election […]