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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 […]

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You conduct a mass mailing and a certain percentage of emails go undelivered because they simply do not 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 […]

Categorized as: Company News, Product Development

Skypunch and Association Technology Solutions (ATS) have established a business partnership aimed at offering an integration bridge between the Skypunch online voting system and the iMIS association management system (AMS). Offered by Advanced Solutions International (ASI), iMIS is one of the association industry’s most well established and widely used association management systems. Now, any organization […]

Categorized as: Company News, Product Development

The underlying database that supports any web-based service may seem like a rather ho-hum topic to write about. Usually, I would agree. Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle. Yup, I’m yawning just typing those names. But when the database happens to be Aurora, I light up. This is an exciting new service offered by Amazon […]

Categorized as: Election Tips

Host your election with Skypunch Technology and: These are all very good reasons to host your election on the Skypunch, but this post examines some very good reasons to integrate the service into your own web site using the API (Application Programming Interface). For those who aren’t aware, it is possible to set up an election […]

Categorized as: Company News, Election Tips

A new statute in the state of Florida (effective July 1, 2015) permits homeowner associations to elect their leadership using an online voting system—something that had not previously been permissible. ElectionsOnline’s Evote has been used by HOAs in other states for several years and is happy to finally welcome Florida to the party. As evidenced […]

Categorized as: Election Tips

I’ve seen cases where the individual overseeing an election is also a candidate in the election. While this might seem like an obviously bad approach, it does happen, and because it happens, it raises the question of who should have oversight of an organization’s election process. I don’t consider there to be a one-size-fits-all approach. […]

Categorized as: Election Tips

Disregard for the moment the controversy that swelled when the Federal Highway Administration mandated last year that all road signs need to begin using mixed case street names instead of all caps and you find there’s actually a very well-founded logic for the mandate. Election administrators would be well advised to appreciate and follow that […]