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Categorized as: Product Development, Time Savers

An election may be created in three quick and easy steps—and fewer than that when copying a previous election. Given the speed and simplicity of setting up a ballot, it can often be the upload of candidate biographies that is the most burdensome part of the whole process. But it doesn’t have to be. In fact, it […]

Categorized as: Election Tips, Product Development, Time Savers

Elections results may be published publicly. The benefit—as opposed to a client retrieving the results from their account and then accouncing the results through some other means—is that when voters see the results published publicly on the Skypunch website, they understand that an independent, third-party specialist has been retained to conduct the election and is […]

Categorized as: Product Development

Multifactor Authentication (MFA). Enabling it is the single biggest thing you can do to ensure the security of any online account. If you have shied away from using it before, hopefully this article can impress upon you the problem it solves, how effective it can be, and just how simple it is to use. Authentication […]

Categorized as: Product Development

The death of passwords as a means by which to authenticate an identity and access a computer system has been predicted for years. Those predictions have not proven prophetic though given that the most popular method by which to prove one’s identity is still by coupling an identity with a password. Today however, Skypunch announces […]

Categorized as: Product Development

Using a password to verify an identity is very often the first line of defense in securing access to an online account. Given this important role, it is critical that a password be strong and for that reason, when creating a new account at Skypunch Technology, or resetting the password for an existing account, the password associated […]

Categorized as: Election Tips, Product Development

The ElectionsOnline voting system may be configured to send emails to voters on the start date of an election informing them that voting is open and providing a link to the ballot. For years clients have had the ability to download a report of any emails from that mailing that went undelivered. That has now […]

Categorized as: Company News, Election Tips, Product Development

To 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 […]

Categorized as: Product Development

Along with all the other options for managing an election, there is now a new link labeled Verify election results. Its use is explained fully at Election Verification and Certification, but not all certifications are created equally, and this should not be confused with a gimmicky, pseudo-certification that amounts to nothing more but a declaration that no compromising activity […]

Categorized as: Product Development

There has been a change to how ballots are stored within the Skypunch Technology system. While evolutionary with respect to how it came to be, this is truly revolutionary in what is now possible—that being immutable and cryptographically verifiable ballots available only from the leading innovator of election technology. If you’re familiar with blockchain, this […]

Categorized as: Product Development

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. The roster takes the form of a compressed Excel spreadsheet with one of the following three filters applied: Clients may go to the Manage Voters area of their account and click a […]