Real-Time Election Voting Software
Survey & Ballot Systems (SBS) offers a robust online voting tool for elections, meetings, and other live voting needs. Empower your members with an online voting platform where everyone has a voice.
What Is a Real-Time Voting Platform?
Our live voting platform is a Software as a Service (SaaS) designed for real-time voting during meetings, conferences, elections, and other events. This purpose-built live voting software features intuitive tools for adding motion items, defining voting parameters, and increasing audience engagement.
Making decisions within your organization is intuitive and accessible with a real-time voting system. SBS offers a self-service digital voting platform that empowers your members to take charge of your voting events and ensure every voice is heard.
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Features and Capabilities of the Online Election Voting Software
Our self-service voting software platform is built for ease-of-use. With its intuitive navigation and purpose-built features, administrators can guide the conversation and every attendee can provide input with the virtual voting tool. Features and capabilities of our election software and online voting tools include:
Comprehensive dashboard: View the details about your voting event through an easy-to-read dashboard. Monitor member attendance, open and close motion items, and view live results in one voting platform.
Quick event setup and real-time editing: Hosts send a link to their members through email or text that gives them access to the platform. Administrators can edit motion items before and during voting to facilitate decision-making, and the online voting platform will store all activity for historical meeting minutes.
Custom voting parameters: Every organization has unique bylaws and processes for completing a voting event. The platform allows admins to tailor voting parameters to your organization's unique needs. For example, choose from anonymous or transparent voting and decide if the results will be visible to voters.
Document sharing: Users can easily upload and share meeting minutes, agendas, and other documents to display during virtual meetings. Give your members all materials they need to stay engaged with our digital election platform.
Live chat: Your members deserve to be informed before submitting their votes. With the integrated chat feature, voters can ask questions about motion items and open up valuable conversations for your organization.
Industry-leading security: Our solution is credential-based and uses Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption to secure your voting data. The platform is also SOC 2-compliant and operates in partnership with Azure to deliver comprehensive data backup and disaster recovery.
Testimonials
"SBS was incredibly professional and highlighted exactly how real-time voting could work for our situation. Real-time voting enables our Board of Directors to cast their votes in a matter of seconds, with results instantly tabulated, as well as being able to adjust rounds of voting on the fly with runoffs. After the vote, our board couldn't believe - this is an incredible improvement, we should've done this years ago."
- Adam Brooks, Association of Professional Flight Attendants
Who Can Benefit from Online Election Voting?
Our real-time voting platform best suits organizations that hold regular meetings and vote frequently. It can support more regulated events, like electing new officers, or more casual decision-making, like deciding on a new annual fundraiser. Groups that most often benefit from these online election tools like real-time vote counting include: associations, union locals, credit unions, religious groups, political groups and government organizations, clubs, homeowners associations (HOAs), cooperatives, and educational institutions.
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Additional Election Services From Survey & Ballot Systems
At Survey & Ballot Systems (SBS), we’ll collaborate with you to discover your priorities and determine which of our solutions align with your election goals. We also offer several additional election services to reduce your administrative load, increase voter participation, and improve member satisfaction. Here are the services we offer:
Election Analytics
Election analytics turn your data into actionable insights, helping you analyze member behavior and improve participation.
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Embedded Login Links
Expand participation with embedded login links. When you opt for this service, we’ll send auto-embedded login links to your voters’ emails that takes them directly to their ballot — no username or password setup needed.
Discover the Power of Embedded Login
QR Codes
Incorporating QR codes on election resources, like fliers, posters, and mail-in ballots, can direct members straight to your voting webpage or directly into their ballot.
Harness the Impact of QR Codes
Single Sign-On
Single sign-on (SSO) significantly simplifies online voting by allowing members to log in through your website’s member-only portal using their existing credentials. Once logged in, voters are directed to the election website and their ballot — no need for new usernames or passwords.
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Voting Participation Reminders
SBS offers targeted voter reminders through postal mail, iCalendar alerts, automated texts, and email notifications. Ideal for member organizations with a diverse voter pool, these voting reminders are a proven way to increase participation in elections.
Enhance Voter Engagement
The Perks of a Real-Time Voting Tool and System
With an online voting platform, your organization can:
Given the prevalence and flexibility of video chat, a majority of organizations now conduct meetings and events that cater to both in-person and virtual attendees. Our real-time voting platform is accessible from any connected device. Whether your members are local, national, or worldwide, they can all participate.
When running a meeting with in-person and virtual members, ensuring everyone is engaged and valued in the conversation can present a challenge. Keeping everyone invested and intrigued is critical for making collective decisions. Our online voting system creates a shared virtual environment for every voter and view-only attendee to provide input, raise new points, and contribute to the overall organization.
You may have used other voting methods in the past, like paper ballots, sending out emails, or even other online voting platforms but these methods can lead to disorganization and manual labor you don't have time for. Our real-time voting platform uses best practices and does the heavy lifting, from securing election data to counting up votes, so you can focus on the impact of the results.
Election Voting Software
If our real-time voting software is not the right fit for you, let us help you identify the best solution for your organization. Our goal is to create an innovative voting option that works for everyone. When you choose SBS, we act as your trusted consultant, helping you design election voting software with capabilities and voting preferences adapted to your organization's unique needs.
Our fully managed voting services are turnkey solutions that support multiple election requirements. For organizations that need an all-in-one voting option, our full management services support nearly any voting preference. This dynamic election solution is completely customized to your organization's bylaws and regulations to ensure the voting process completely aligns with your election goals.
SBS performs every step to create a flexible and engaging voting management software platform. We handle all essential development and design details, including: ballot layout, distribution, tabulation, security features and encryption safeguards.
Our fully managed electronic voting software and platform revolves around adaptability. With a diversity of voting preferences and election processes, you need services that support your specific needs. Whether you and your voters prefer paper ballots, online voting, onsite elections, or a combination process, we can tailor our voting services to offer single or hybrid voting methods.
Designed for ease-of-use, our do-it-yourself (DIY) voting software enables you to create a unique voting solution. Whether voting on bylaws or seeking budget approval, DIY voting provides complete flexibility for organizations of 5,000 voters or less.
Manage every aspect of the voting process from the user-friendly interface, which optimizes customization for your organization's needs and provides real-time visibility so you can review data right away. DIY voting software can be self-managed or fully managed by our team to ensure distance between you and the voting process.
When you need to assemble candidates for an upcoming election or a method of quickly capturing petition signatures, our digital nomination and petition voting software simplifies the process. Manage all nominees, their applications, and information, including nominee self-registration, to ease the administrative burden of the nomination process. With your candidates in place, you can easily utilize one of our election voting solutions.
Frequently Asked Questions
Basics
What is a real-time voting platform?
A tool used to conduct live votes during meetings, conferences, and elections. It lets admins create motions, define parameters, collect votes instantly, and display results in real time.
How does online voting during meetings work?
Members receive a secure link (via email/text or SSO). Admins open motions, attendees vote on connected devices, and results update instantly on a dashboard.
What’s the difference between live polling and election-grade voting?
Live polling boosts engagement; election-grade voting also enforces bylaws, credentialed access, auditable records, custom vote rules, and compliance/security suitable for formal decisions.
Key Features
What features does SBS’s real-time platform include?
A comprehensive dashboard, quick meeting setup with real-time editing, custom voting parameters such as weighted voting and results visibility controls (including anonymous vs. transparent voting), document sharing, integrated live chat, and industry-grade security.
Can admins edit items during a vote?
Yes. Admins can add/edit motion items before and during voting; the platform logs activity for historical minutes.
Can voting be anonymous?
Yes. Admins can configure anonymous or transparent voting and choose whether results are visible to voters.
Does it show real-time results?
Yes. The dashboard displays live outcomes as votes are cast.
Security & Compliance
Is online voting secure?
Survey & Ballot Systems' online voting solution is secure with credential-based access, TLS encryption, SOC 2-compliant operations, and Azure-backed data backup/disaster recovery.
What does SOC 2 compliance mean for elections?
It indicates audited controls for security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy which is necessary for safeguarding election data and processes.
Is online voting legal for official organizations?
Generally yes, but requirements vary. Follow your bylaws and local regulations. Configure the platform (quorum, anonymity, eligibility) to align with your rules.
Can you vote online in government elections?
In the U.S., federal elections do not offer online voting; voting is in person or by absentee/mailed ballot. Member-based organizations (HOAs, unions, associations, etc.) can use online voting platforms like SBS.
Contact SBS for a Real-Time Voting Platform
Whether you're part of a HOA or a university board, strengthen your decision-making with a real-time voting solution. SBS also offers enterprise solutions to provide additional voting software support when needed. Get in touch with us today to learn more about our real-time voting solution.
