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August 26th, 2025 by David Simms

Categorized as: Election Tips, Time Savers

Managing Account Turnover

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 […]

August 7th, 2025 by David Simms

Categorized as: Tech Tips

Argon2 Password Hashing

This article details how ColdFusion developers may easily store user passwords using the Argon2id password hashing algorithm as recommended by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). At the time of this writing, neither Adobe ColdFusion, nor Lucee support the ability to do this natively. However, being a Java application means ColdFusion can reach down […]

August 6th, 2025 by David Simms

Categorized as: Election Tips

Position Description Best Practices

On a Board of Directors, it’s pretty common knowledge what the roles of President, Treasurer, Secretary and Director are. But occasionally something is voted on that requires a little explanation. This is almost always the case for things like referendums for changes to bylaws and the like. For these occasions, the Skypunch online voting system […]

July 4th, 2025 by David Simms

Categorized as: Tech Tips

Secure Cookies

Here is the scenario. You have an application written in the ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) and you have the Lucee application server installed and working properly to process that CFML code. All is good. But you know that as a security best practice—and security requirement if you need to comply with things such as the […]

June 20th, 2025 by David Simms

Categorized as: Company News

Identity Week 2025

Identity Week is Europe’s largest annual conference for all things related to digital identity and authentication and Skypunch’s involvement in it is expected to bear fruit in the years ahead. In 2025, Identity Week was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands featuring a reported 4000+ attendees and hundreds of exhibitors and startups. The state of West […]

May 9th, 2025 by David Simms

Categorized as: Election Tips

Testing Ballot Setup

This is less of a tip and more of an instruction. More precisely, an instruction to follow the instructions detailed in Section Two of the User Manual about how to conduct testing prior to the start of an election. Of course this wouldn’t be included here at all, but for those occasions where clients started […]

March 17th, 2025 by David Simms

Categorized as: Product Development

Woman interacts with a computer.

Candidates have long been able to input their own biographies into the system. Election managers have also long been able to input biographies on behalf of candidates. How that is done has now changed. While this could just about go without an announcement given how seamless the changes are from a user experience perspective, it’s […]

March 7th, 2025 by David Simms

Categorized as: Election Tips, Increase Voter Turnout

Tips for Linking to the Ballot

One of the best practices for increasing voter turnout requires creating a link on your own web site that takes voters directly to the ballot login page. That’s a simple enough thing to do, but there are some best practices and tips that can be employed to ensure this link works to maximum effectiveness. For […]

February 7th, 2025 by David Simms

Categorized as: Product Development

Testing Ballot Setup

There has been a significant change in the underlying technology of the Skypunch voting system that clients should know about as it impacts the verification of ballots. For years, the technology at the heart of the Skypunch solution has been a trade secret and not disclosed publicly. That technology, introduced to the market by AWS […]

October 3rd, 2024 by David Simms

Categorized as: Election Tips

7 Don'ts for Starting an Election

I’ve seen this. A client’s election begins and they do some really proper things such as: Unfortunately, I’ve seen times when the beauty of these things almost gets lost in a clutter of aimless and horribly verbose text surrounding it. I’ll not name names or even copy and paste bad examples here (at least not […]

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