Election Setup - Ballot Page

The Ballot Page of your vote setup is the reason behind your vote. There are many ways to customize this page, so please be sure to refer to your by-laws to ensure you follow the voting rules established by your organization. Adding Positions and Questions In the Wizard, select your Position or...

You can set up ElectionBuddy for a wide variety of elections, votes, and polls. With our flexible voting methods, you can combine ballot types within an election to simplify the voting process for your voters. Select ballot samples below to view more details! Contract Ratifications Executive Ele...

ElectionBuddy is the easiest voting solution for all types of Unions. Increase your member engagement and make decisions faster, with more buy-in. Take the stress out of the voting process. Executive Officer Election - Multiple Vacancies Executive Officer Election - Single Vacancies Contract Rat...

Regardless of whether you're a Community Association Manager, on an HOA or Condominium Board, in a Strata Council, or a Building Co-operative, our voting platform has the flexibility and power to handle any type of voting so you can make powerful decisions, fast. Reaching quorum has never been ea...

ElectionBuddy has built thousands of ballots that work for Churches and Religious Organizations. Create perfectly designed accessible voter ballots. Below are samples used by religious organizations like yours. Clergy Board Elections Bylaw Amendments Meeting Votes Nomination Vote The team at Ele...

ElectionBuddy is the number one voting platform for College and University student governments, student clubs, faculty, and alumni associations by providing a secure democratic vote at an affordable price. Board Election Executive Officer Elections Meeting Votes The team at ElectionBuddy has com...

ElectionBuddy is the easiest voting solution for Professional, Medical, or any Industry Association. Unify your decision-making and get everyone engaged using one voting platform. Board Election Bylaw Amendments Member Awards The team at ElectionBuddy has compiled the following example questions...

ElectionBuddy offers a range of voting systems to enable you to find the system that best aligns with your group's values, priorities, and goals for effective and representative governance. Various voting systems exist to address some of the concerns of voters such as fairness, accurate represent...

You might like to include information for your voters, such as why the vote is being held, meeting information, and when results will be released just as a few examples. The ballot information and instructions will appear at the top of the ballot to allow you to easily share overall instructions ...

ElectionBuddy allows you to provide additional information about your candidates, which helps your voters make an informed decision when deciding who to vote for. Common items to include in a candidate profile are short biographies, candidate statements, videos, and qualifications. You can also i...

Organizations may wish to avoid the Ballot Order Effect by randomly displaying Ballot choices for each voter, affording voters the opportunity to offer comments feedback, and suggestions, to allowing your voters to choose not to vote on a specific question versus choosing not to submit a ballot b...

Write-ins allow voters to submit their own choices outside of the candidates or options that have been added by the administrator. The number of write-ins that are allowed on each ballot depends on the number of candidates that can be voted for. If you have more vacancies than you have candidate...

There may be times when you want to collect feedback from the voters during the voting process, such as on an amendment. To provide voters the opportunity to offer comments and suggestions while voting, create a ballot question and enable "Ask for Comments". This option is available for each vot...

Variables are a great feature that allows you to personalize notices and ballots for each voter. This is part of the setup process. Variables can be added to the notice and ballot pages. You can even add your own custom information from the Voters Page. To illustrate, instead of using the ...

To provide voters with additional information, ElectionBuddy allows you to add additional text or add an attachment of a single file to each Ballot Question or Position. The file type can be JPEG, PNG, or PDF, and up to 5MB in size. Setup From the Ballot Page, during vote setup, locate the posi...

To help important details stand out, or to call attention to specific sections of information on your ballot, you can add one or more formatting options to user-add text throughout your vote setup wherever you see a formatting ribbon. Adding Formatting to your Text Apply one or more formattin...

You can add multiple positions and or questions on the same ballot if you are setting up a vote where voters will cast votes on all topics within a single ballot, and all choices on voting topics are submitted together. This is ideal if you would like your voters to cast their votes on multiple p...

During setup, you may have initially added ballot questions or candidate names in one order but would like to present them to the voters differently than originally added in order to meet the ballot experience and voting flow your organization would like. For example, amendment votes first, and p...

Within many memberships, there can be multiple candidates interested in running for a given position within the organization. ElectionBuddy has an easy way for you to add all your candidates to the ballot so voters can make selections from all available choices. The "Add Multiple" button allows ...

Using the Allow Abstain setting adds Abstain as a choice to your questions. You can use it to allow your voters to choose not to vote on a specific question versus choosing not to submit a ballot: Selecting the Allow Abstain setting only affects individual questions, not the entire ballot. Vot...

Providing additional instructions can help improve your voter's experience and make their voting process smooth and successful. It's essential to strike a balance – too many instructions can overwhelm voters, while too few can lead to confusion. Additional instructions can help voters understand ...

Logos can be an important aspect of personalizing your ballot toward your organization to increase professionalism, recognition, and consistency between your organization and your vote. ElectionBuddy allows you to brand your ballot with your organization's logo to create a professional voting exp...

Collecting membership feedback can be very useful to many organizations, to help, a ballot can be set up to collect feedback from voters without needing to make a selection on a formal ballot question. If you are looking to collect feedback as part of a ballot question where voters are required t...

For many organizations, a vote may not be valid unless a percentage of voters participate. To assist organizations in maximizing voter participation, ElectionBuddy offers Quorum Voting. This allows voters to vote for quorum purposes only. Voters can register their votes while abstaining from all ...

There may be situations where the administrator setting up the vote is not the same person voters should reach out to with questions while the vote is running. By default, ElectionBuddy will use the administrator's contact information from the account on the Ballot Confirmation Page for voters wh...

Surveys and polls are effective tools for collecting data and gathering information from a specific target audience. They allow you to obtain insights, opinions, preferences, and demographic data from individuals or a group of people in order to make an informed decision. ElectionBuddy's Scored ...

ElectionBuddy is designed to be usable for the approving or disapproving of a slate. Setup You can set up a question for a slate by following this process: From the Ballot Page select Yes or No as the "Position or Question Type". You could also use the "Referendum or Polls" option; you just wa...

Whether you are voting on a contract ratification, a strike, bylaw amendments, or have an unopposed candidate, you will likely be asking voters to vote Yes or No. Setting up a Yes or No vote with ElectionBuddy is supported. The Plurality Voting method is commonly used for Yes or No votes. The op...

For many organizations, there are requirements to vote on amendments to bylaws or changes to articles. ElectionBuddy supports many types of ballot setups including allowing voters to either approve or reject. Setting up the Ballot Question From Position or Question Type, choose "Yes or No", the...

You may have a position with more than one vacancy, and more than one candidate running for the vacancies. This is common in elections for board members, or for any other position that has a group of people with a shared job in an organization. ElectionBuddy allows you to set up a ballot question...

You may have a candidate running for a position, unopposed. You can use ElectionBuddy to ratify the sole candidate, and voters choose to either approve or reject the candidate. The option with the most votes wins. Setting Up From the window that appears, or by selecting the + Add position or qu...

Proxy voting is when someone else is allowed to vote on behalf of a voter by giving their voting rights to another individual. That person may be another voter or a member involved in the administration. There are two forms of proxy voting that dictate the ballot style and process; Indirect and ...

Emojis can add a splash of color and customization to a ballot. They can help distinguish between candidates or options and can help make navigating the ballot easier for some voters. There are several ways to add emojis: From an Emoji Keyboard Copy and Paste from Emojipedia From a Phone’s Emoj...

There may be situaitons where you are creating similar votes, so to save time when creating, ElectionBuddy allows you to reuse any ballot questions you have created previously, including those from "Incomplete" votes. Using a prior question can save time when taking nominations and creating the ...

To allow voters to approve each candidate on one question quickly, organizations may set up a Single Ballot Question where voters select Yes - I approve/No - I reject on each candidate. This type of ballot can be created using “Scored” voting. Please see our article on Scored Voting for more inf...

Set a quorum for all ballot questions and the winning threshold for each ballot question. Quorum is a specific number of voters, typically defined in bylaws, needed for the vote to be valid. The winning threshold is the minimum share of the vote that a candidate or question needs before they can...