Online Voting Insights & Resources

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Club elections are rarely the part of an AGM that people look forward to. For a small sporting club, it might mean passing around paper ballots while someone checks the membership list. For a larger community organisation, there may be hundreds or thousands of eligible members, multiple positions to fill, nominations to verify and a […]

For many not-for-profit organisations, elections are still managed with a combination of paper forms, email, spreadsheets and voting at an annual general meeting. That can work when an organisation has a small, local membership. But once members are spread across different cities, states or countries, the process becomes harder to manage — and much harder […]

An association election may look simple from the outside. Members nominate. Candidates are confirmed. Eligible members receive their ballot. Votes are cast and counted. The result is declared. Yet anyone who has actually managed an association election knows that the difficult part is rarely the button members press to vote. The real work happens around […]