Online voting for organisations
More and more organisations vote online, from small sports clubs to professional bodies. This section explains how a secret online ballot works, what to settle before you start, how virtual and hybrid meetings handle votes, and which tools are worth a look.
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In this section
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Free Online Voting Tools: What the Free Tiers Allow
Free online voting tools compared: ElectionBuddy, OpaVote, Tally, LimeSurvey and live polling, with their free-tier limits and when free is good enough.
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How Online Voting Works for Organisations: Step by Step
How an online vote in a club, association or company runs: voter register, invitations, casting a secret ballot, counting, and where online voting has limits.
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How to Run a Board Election Online: 10 Steps
Step-by-step guide to an online board or committee election: rules, nominations, voter register, ballot design, voting window, count and documentation.
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Online Votes in Owners' Associations: Options and Limits
How owners' and condominium associations can vote online: remote participation, virtual meetings, written resolutions, the German WEG example and a checklist.
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Online Voting for Associations and Clubs: A Practical Guide
How clubs and associations can vote online: what the constitution must allow, hybrid and virtual meetings, written resolutions and a first-vote checklist.
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Online Voting Security and Ballot Secrecy Explained
How online voting keeps ballots secret and results trustworthy: separating identity and vote, encryption, verifiability, certification and real-world limits.
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Online Voting Software Compared: POLYAS, ElectionBuddy & Co.
Online voting software compared: POLYAS, Simply Voting, ElectionBuddy and OpaVote on ballot secrecy, voting methods, hosting, pricing logic and best fit.
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Virtual or Hybrid General Meeting: How to Run One
How to run a virtual or hybrid general meeting: legal basis, invitation, technology, voting during the meeting, minutes and a checklist for the day itself.
Other sections
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Polls and surveys
Survey tools compared, anonymous polls, live polling for meetings and events, scheduling polls and how to write questions that people answer honestly.
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Voting methods explained
Simple and qualified majorities, quorum, ranked-choice, approval and score voting, proxies and postal votes, and the double majority, explained with worked examples.
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Referendums and direct democracy
What referendums, initiatives and citizens' assemblies are, how they work across Europe, the history of EU treaty referendums and the European Citizens' Initiative.