Illinois Association of School Boards

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Whether you need to see how each person voted, or if you need the vote completely anonymous, TownVOTE can help you speed up the vote counting. Some clients reported up to 2-3 hours of timed saved during their elections and/or business meetings.

Consolidate the two Aye/Nay votes into a single one, and get an accurate vote count in seconds. After the vote is closed, instantly see whether it passed or failed, depending on your required majority rule.

Weighted voting can be easily configured so that each delegate carrying proxies with them have the right amount of voting power at the time of the vote.

The TownVOTE system can connect in real time to a registration system and get the most up-to-date information about the delegate body just before the voting starts.

Avoid having someone ‘steer’ the vote in one direction. Hiding the individual results and subtotals until the vote is closed.

Encourage honest and more complete vote by making the vote anonymous.

Instantly see whether the vote passed or failed taking your majority calculation into account.

With Meridia electronic voting systems, you can use clickers,  mobile devices (any device with a web browser), or combine both in a hybrid session. You can run a live, real-time session, or schedule the voting and elections over a period of time and let everyone attend at their convenience.

Use clickers in an in-person, live meeting, or allow for a hybrid format with your constituents connecting from around the world via Zoom, Microsoft Teams or WebEx.

Face-to-face meetings are the best and the simplicity of the keypad cannot be beat. But if you must, you are able to invite your virtual attendees to participate in the session as well. They will log in via our CloudVOTE portal, securely authenticate and cast their ballot as if they were in the room with the rest of the group.

Sometimes you need to leave the voting open for longer period of time, so that everyone can have a chance to cast their ballot.

Our CloudVOTE system allows the voter to securely log in and answer the questions on the ballot at their own pace. Set up your ballot questions as a presentation, upload it to CloudVOTE, create a list of authorized participants and sit back until it’s time to collect the results.

Create your content easily in PowerPoint. This way, you can get creative and make it informative and useful, but also beautiful.

For example, before a vote, you can show the slides of each of the candidate’s bio and their picture.

Download a sample template. You can customize it to fit your needs.

Review the slides for spelling and interactive (voting) settings, such as number of answers and set up required and optional voting on each slide.

On election slides, you can create a vote for a single candidate, or multiple candidates. Set up whether the voter has UP TO x votes, or EXACTLY x votes and create conditional flow depending on what answer they choose on previous slides.

Voters securely log into your session, identifying the voting session they want to participate in and themselves (e.g. Name, Unit/County, Access Code).

They walk through the slide deck at their leisure, from their homes/offices and record their votes.

The data can be viewed anytime during and after the session is completed. It can be running for an hour, a day, or a few weeks or months.