Online Voting Insights & Resources

AGM Voting Services in Australia: How to Manage Voting at Your Next AGM An AGM can take weeks to prepare and only a few minutes to go wrong. The agenda may be finalised. Notices have gone out. Reports are ready. Candidates have been confirmed. Then the chair calls for the first vote and someone asks: […]

Online AGM Voting in Australia: How to Run a Meeting and Manage Votes Remotely Running an AGM online can remove a lot of practical barriers. Members do not have to travel to a venue. Shareholders in different cities can participate in the same meeting. Organisations can accommodate people who cannot attend in person. But moving […]

AGM Voting Software in Australia: What Features Should Organisations Look For? An annual general meeting can look straightforward on the agenda. Approve the minutes, consider the reports, elect directors and vote on a few resolutions. The voting itself can be another matter. Members may be attending in person, joining online or appointing proxies. Some resolutions […]

Electronic AGM Voting in Australia: How Digital Voting Can Simplify Meeting Decisions An AGM can run smoothly for most of the meeting and then become difficult the moment a vote is called. The chair asks members to vote. Hands go up around the room. Someone is joining by video. Several members have appointed proxies. A […]

AGM Ballot Software in Australia: When Is Dedicated Voting Software Worth Using? AGM voting can look deceptively simple. For a small organisation with a handful of members and straightforward resolutions, a show of hands or a basic voting process may be perfectly adequate. But the picture changes quickly when an AGM involves a large membership, […]

AGM Quorum Requirements in Australia: A Practical Guide An AGM can be carefully planned, the agenda can be ready, the voting system can be tested — and then the meeting cannot properly proceed because there are not enough eligible members present. That is the practical significance of a quorum. A quorum is the minimum number […]

Meeting Voting Software: Choosing the Right Solution for AGMs, EGMs and Committee Meetings Running a meeting is one thing. Running a meeting where important decisions have to be voted on, recorded and relied upon later is another. For an AGM, EGM or committee meeting, the voting process needs to do more than simply collect a […]

Annual General Meetings are built on trust. Members trust that their votes will be counted correctly. Directors trust the integrity of the results. Company secretaries and governance professionals trust that the meeting complies with legal and organisational requirements. Increasingly, that trust also depends on technology. As more Australian organisations conduct hybrid and virtual AGMs, the […]

An AGM might only last a few hours, but the decisions made during it can affect an organisation for months or even years. Directors may be elected. Resolutions may be approved. Members may decide on constitutional changes. Shareholders may vote on significant corporate matters. That makes the voting process more than an administrative exercise. It […]

Many organisations already use Microsoft 365, so it’s no surprise that Microsoft Forms is often the first tool people consider when planning an AGM vote. It’s familiar, quick to set up, and doesn’t appear to cost anything extra. For a simple staff survey, that’s perfectly reasonable. An Annual General Meeting, however, is a governance process—not […]