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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 […]

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: Election Tips, Increase Voter Turnout, Time Savers

ElectionsOnline’s software offers the ultimate in flexibility for configuring a ballot to present different positions to different voters. It does this through two configuration tools; 1. voter groups and 2. special interest groups. Read more about how and when to use each. By using these two tools, election administrators can, and many do, conduct two entirely […]

Categorized as: Election Tips

Voters 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. Doing this for voters without an email address is a topic for another day, but the intent of this article is to give an executive summary of email delivery within the […]