Categorized as: Election Tips
Last month, part one of this two-part series provided an overview of ranked choice voting (RCV). This month we focus on how private-sector organizations can make the transition to RCV and lead the public sector into a better way of voting. Private/Public Similarities When deciding whether to adopt RCV for a private organization, the first […]
Categorized as: Election Tips
Ranked choice voting (RCV) does not enjoy widespread use. Yes, we see you, Australia, Scotland, and Ireland—and applaud you for leading the world in adopting it over the past century. But let’s talk about the rest of the world—especially the United States—where RCV remains rare. In fact, recent efforts have even sought to ban its […]
Categorized as: Company News
Did you know Skypunch Technology is more than an election service provider? Indeed, the same expertise that goes into building the voting solution is also available for Amazon Web Services consulting. This is not a new announcement, and for a period of time there was a website devoted to it at skypunch.tech. That site is […]
Categorized as: Election Tips, Time Savers
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: Tech Tips
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. (There is an extension available for Lucee but successfully installing […]
Categorized as: Election Tips
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 […]
Categorized as: Tech Tips
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 […]
Categorized as: Company News
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 […]
Categorized as: Election Tips
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 […]
Categorized as: Product Development
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 […]
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