Electronic voting is increasingly used in various settings, from government elections to corporate boardrooms. But how does it stack up against traditional voting methods like voice voting or a show of hands? Here are the pros and cons of e-voting, particularly in the context of business, town, and organizational meetings.
With the Fall season getting into full swing, we’ve been hard at work helping organizations, small governments, and businesses alike to modernize the way they collect and tabulate votes. Over the past few months, we made appearances at the NECA 29th annual convention, Rehoboth’s 2024 Special Town Meeting, as well as our debut appearance at the Maine Municipal Association Convention, where we’ve been introducing town clerks and local government admins to the world of electronic voting!
As a newcomer to the world of electronic voting, the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (AEAONMS) had several unique conditions for their 131st imperial council session on August 20th. Convening at the Sheraton and Marriott hotels in New Orleans, the organization utilized TownVOTE during two electoral voting sessions for the Nobles and Daughters of the Order. The system handled the tasks with ease, automatically counting the votes of almost 2,000 delegates in a large conference room venue.
Since 2018, we’ve partnered with the House Committee on Natural Resources, who utilizes TownVOTE and clickers to record the votes at their Markup Meetings. After previously using a lengthy voting process that involved individually recording the votes of each house member, the electronic voting allowed the committee to significantly cut down on the time for each vote while instantly confirming their results with visual vote confirmation.
Meetings can take place in a variety of locations, especially after COVID-19 restricted in-person meetings like never before. While we can handle the unconventional voting locations (e.g., airport strips, empty warehouses, and more), we wanted to evolve our electronic voting systems to allow for in-person and remote participants to vote as if they were sitting in the same room.
Managing debates and discussion during your meetings can be a tricky task- especially when multiple speakers are expected to take the microphone to argue for or against certain motions. That’s why we’d like to introduce TownVOTE’s new Pre-Vote screen and Speaker’s Queue. Now, users have the ability to manage speakers, set a timer, and take notes all in one convenient location.
When it comes to group voting in a professional setting, having the proper security measures in place is of utmost importance to ensure a smooth experience and accurate results. It’s unacceptable to have a voting session interrupted, or worse, find out that the results of a vote have been affected by an unknown source in any way.
As offline, short-range RF voting systems are not vulnerable from internet-based attacks or distance attacks they are only susceptible to the bad actors who are within a short range of your voting event.
Recognized as one of the nation’s leading educational events, the Illinois Association of School Boards’ Joint Annual Conference is the association’s biggest meeting of the year, encompassing school boards, superintendents, school business officials, and more.
The Battle of the Minds is The Centre Volunteers in Medicine’s signature fundraising event, where participants gather for a gala dinner with a twist; each table participates in a fast-paced trivia game show!
With the help of Meridia’s voting keypads and PowerPoint plugin software, the CVIM was able to make the Battle of the Minds trivia game show fully interactive with a dynamically updating leaderboard.
