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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 […]

Categorized as: Election Tips

Before getting to the tips, let’s establish that there are two ways of getting candidate biographical information in the system. One, by permitting the candidates to submit their own biographical information, or two, by the election manager collecting those biographies from the candidates and entering it into the system for the candidates. Without exception, the preferred method […]

Categorized as: Company News

Innovation: the act or process of introducing new ideas, devices, or methods. (Source: Merriam-Webster) The simple answer to the question, what makes ElectionsOnline the leading innovator, is, well, innovation. But the claim isn’t just puffery. Beyond the claim, some hard examples support the case for ElectionsOnline being the election service other election services want to be […]

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 […]

Categorized as: Election Tips, Time Savers

Your association made the switch from paper to electronic years ago. Congratulations! That’s progress and you’re already spending less time and money than you once did. But it’s only the beginning and there is likely still further evolution to experience. Too regularly I see clients not taking full advantage of system features, or—if using another […]

Categorized as: Election Tips, Product Development

By default, candidate names display in a 2-column layout. This is good as it helps reduce the amount of scrolling a voter must do in order to view the candidates and also presents more candidate names in a single screen view. But election managers may override that default setting and display candidate names stacked vertically […]

Categorized as: Other

Election administration is the process of setting up the ballot; ensuring candidate biographical information, when applicable, is loaded into the system; associating a voter roster with the election; testing the setup to ensure everything works as expected; running the election; and retrieving the results at the end. The occasional prospective client will sometimes approach Skypunch to […]