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Categorized as: Election Tips, Product Development

For years, ElectionsOnline has supported the ability to assign voters to either a voter group and/or a special interest group (SIG) as a way of displaying a certain set of positions to some voters, while other voters see different positions. Depending on the criteria used to place voters into different groups, that could result in […]

Categorized as: Election Tips

The online voting service from Skypunch Technology permits displaying different ballots to different voters based on a voter’s profile. Two tools are available to do this called voter groups and special interest groups (SIGs) which may be used either alone, or together to provide the ultimate in flexibility to handle absolutely any situation that comes along. While […]

Categorized as: Election Tips

Skypunch provides the ability to send email announcements to voters on the opening day of an election and reminders during the course of the election to those who have not voted. If you use this feature, you can and should also take advantage of the failed email report that becomes available 24 hours after the initial mailing. This […]

Categorized as: Company News, Product Development

netFORUM, the very popular Association Management System from Abila, plays quite nicely with the Skypunch online voting service thanks to an integration from Dovelox. Dovelox, the fast-growing integration specialization company founded by former Avectra (now Abila) employees, has introduced to the market a productized solution ready to deploy for any association using netFORUM. Productized means they […]

Categorized as: Product Development

Election managers may do one of the following to permit candidates to submit their biographies into the system. This article examines the pros and cons of each method. For starters, the following chart gives an idea as to what can, and cannot, be done with each option. Free-text Form-based Impose a character limit on candidate […]

Categorized as: Election Tips

The following scenario happens too frequently. An organization creates an account at Skypunch Technology; the point of contact for that account leaves; that person’s replacement comes on board and is assigned the responsibility of managing an election and creates a new account instead of using that organization’s existing account. The system does not permit two […]

Categorized as: Election Tips

Homeowner associations (HOAs) need to elect a board of directors each year. This election generally occurs at an annual meeting and involves casting and counting ballots of the homeowners in attendance along with any ballots that may have been cast by a proxy prior to the annual meeting. Obviously care must be taken in order […]

Categorized as: Other

ElectionsOnline serves a very broad base of clients including professional and trade associations, educational institutions, community groups, businesses and much more. In other words, while online voting software is a very narrowly focused service, the client base is quite horizontal and spans a broad spectrum. Before going further, let’s make sure this concept of a […]

Categorized as: Product Development

Each election now has a checklist associated with it intended to: Completing the checklist is not mandatory and has no impact on the election whatsoever. It’s just an aid to make sure the most important steps in managing an election don’t get overlooked. This does not replace the instruction manual In case that heading wasn’t […]

Categorized as: Other

You conduct a mass mailing and a certain percentage of emails go undelivered because they simply don’t exist. This is normal, but you may be wondering if that percentage is within a normal range when compared to other organizations. To answer the question, I looked at week-by-week statistics for the percentage of emails that were […]