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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: Election Tips, Increase Voter Turnout

“Enlighten us, but make it quick.” The motto of an Ignite event is a concept that translates well to introducing candidates to an electorate both online and off. If you’re new to an Ignite event, the concept is simple, a presenter goes through 20 slides in 5 minutes. That allows for 15 seconds per slide and the […]

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: Company News

Vantage Ventures has welcomed Skypunch Technology as one of its newest resident companies. Formed from a meeting in early 2019 within West Virginia University’s John Chambers School of Business and Economics, and with John Chambers, former CEO of Cisco Systems and namesake of the school, in attendance, Vantage Ventures aims to bring talent, mentors, industry partners, […]

Categorized as: Election Tips, Increase Voter Turnout

Be sure to visit Email Delivery Best Practices for an executive level overview of the ability of the Skypunch voting software to send emails to voters and some best practices for managing that aspect of an election. One of those best practices advises that you may wish to send one email using your own email sending tools, then […]

Categorized as: Company News, Increase Voter Turnout

I’m frequently asked by both current and prospective clients if their existing voter participation rates are acceptable, but defining “acceptable” is not easy. To at least provide a starting point for addressing the question, I sampled voter participation rates from fifty randomly chosen elections. These elections were conducted by a very diverse array of organizations […]

Categorized as: Election Tips, Other

It will happen a couple times each year. I’ll hear from a prospective client about how they tried to save a buck by forcing an election through one of the many survey tools on the market and things did not end well. Elections are serious business and administering one is not to be taken lightly […]