Categorized as: Product Development
Candidates have long been able to input their own biographies into the system. Election managers have also long been able to input biographies on behalf of candidates. How that is done has now changed. While this could just about go without an announcement given how seamless the changes are from a user experience perspective, it’s […]
Categorized as: Product Development
There has been a significant change in the underlying technology of the Skypunch voting system that clients should know about as it impacts the verification of ballots. For years, the technology at the heart of the Skypunch solution has been a trade secret and not disclosed publicly. That technology, introduced to the market by AWS […]
Categorized as: Product Development, Time Savers
Before any election, candidates must be chosen. Instead of treating the candidate nomination process as detached from the actual election, the Skypunch Nomination Engine treats it as an inherent part of the election. Nominated candidates—along with any biographical information—flow right into the final election setup, thereby eliminating a two-phase approach and further streamlining the overall election administration […]
Categorized as: Product Development
Right off, this is applicable to those clients whose voters login at a third-party website (for example, the website owned by the organization conducting the election) and are then passed over to the Skypunch website where the voter may view and submit a ballot without being prompted to login again. This is referred to as […]
Categorized as: Product Development
A change has been made to the Skypunch system that effects large, private sector clients. In this context, large is defined as any organization with 5,000 or more voters and the change is that the system will no longer send email announcements and/or election reminders to voters during the election. This does not have any […]
Categorized as: Product Development
Private sector clients may stop reading right now as the Ballot Report is intended for use by Public Sector clients. That said, clients who have noticed the new link associated with all the other election administration links in their account may be wondering what this Ballot Report is should read on for an explanation. In […]
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Within the Skypunch election management console there is a user logs reporting tool useful for determining what changes have been made to your election setup and who made them. This article covers what is included in those logs, and what isn’t. What gets logged Changes to the following entities are logged: In other words, all […]
Categorized as: Election Tips, Product Development
When you create a totally new organizational account through which to manage elections using the Skypunch online voting system, you become the account owner. However, there are other types of user accounts that may be associated with your organization and this article explains each so you understand the security benefits of using the right account type […]
Categorized as: Election Tips, Increase Voter Turnout, Product Development
New to social proof? For a full description, visit social proof on Wikipedia, but in a nutshell it may be defined as “…a psychological phenomenon where people assume the actions of others in an attempt to reflect correct behavior for a given situation.” It’s a concept that may be used to increase voter turnout, and a feature […]
Categorized as: Election Tips, Product Development
Skypunch supports Ranked Choice Voting. Among other names, this is sometimes referred to as Single Transferable Vote, preferential voting, or when being used to fill only a single vacancy, Instant Runoff. Frankly none of the alternative names are particularly descriptive in helping voters understand how it differs from plurality voting where the candidate with the most […]
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