Online Voting Insights & Resources

For many companies limited by guarantee, member voting is still managed through a mixture of paper forms, email responses, spreadsheets, proxy forms and votes taken during an AGM. That approach can work when membership is small and everyone is in the same room. It becomes considerably harder when members are spread across Australia, attending remotely, […]

Trust is the foundation of every election. Whether it is a company AGM, a strata committee election, a union ballot, an association vote or a large-scale corporate resolution, participants need confidence that the process is fair, secure and accurate. When voting moves online, that trust becomes even more important. Members are no longer placing a […]

A board election can look simple from the outside. Candidates are nominated, members or shareholders vote, the votes are counted and the successful candidates are announced. But anyone who has actually managed a director election knows the difficult part is everything happening around the vote. Who is entitled to vote? Which candidates are standing? Are […]

Boards and committees are increasingly responsible for making decisions about technology providers that manage sensitive organisational information. For many associations, unions, not-for-profits, companies, and member-based organisations, this includes systems that handle: Member databases Shareholder information Election results Proxy appointments Confidential ballots Governance records The question boards are now asking is simple: How do we know […]

Voting used to mean paper forms, ballot boxes, envelopes and someone spending hours counting the results. That process still has its place. But for organisations with members, shareholders, employees or voters spread across different locations, a digital ballot system can make the process considerably easier to manage. A digital ballot system allows eligible voters to […]

Online voting is now a practical option for many Australian organisations. Members can vote from home, employees can participate across multiple worksites, shareholders can join meetings remotely, and associations can run elections without relying entirely on paper ballots. But there is a common misconception about online voting in Australia. There is no single Australian law […]

Electronic voting can make an election, AGM, member ballot or workplace vote significantly easier to manage. But moving a ballot online does not remove the governance responsibilities that sit behind it. If anything, electronic voting makes some of those responsibilities more visible. Organisations need to be confident that the right people can vote, that votes […]

An enterprise agreement vote can look like the simplest part of the bargaining process. The negotiations are finished. The document has been drafted. The parties have reached a position they can live with. Now employees just need to vote. That final step is where organisations can still run into trouble. Under the Fair Work Act […]

When an election is conducted online, one question often comes up after the voting system has been selected: Who checks that the election was actually conducted properly? That is where an election scrutineer can play an important role. A scrutineer provides an independent layer of oversight around the voting process. Depending on the organisation and […]

For decades, paper ballots have been the safe, familiar choice for organisations running elections, AGMs, committee elections and member ballots. There is a reason for that. A paper ballot is easy to understand. Voters mark a form, place it in a box or return it by post, and the votes are counted. But paper becomes […]