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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.