Election Management Services for Associations and Unions

EBA Vote Timelines: What Actually Happens (and How Long It Takes) When clients ask how long an enterprise agreement vote takes, they are usually expecting a neat answer. There isn’t one. You can run a clean, well-organised vote in just over three weeks. You can also watch the same process stretch out to six weeks […]

Clients often assume there must be a strict rule somewhere saying EBA votes have to be conducted by secret ballot. It sounds like the kind of thing the law would spell out clearly. It doesn’t. That said, if you’ve been around enterprise bargaining for any length of time, you’ll know most experienced practitioners won’t go […]

“If it’s secret, how do you audit it?” That question comes up almost every time we talk to a new client. And it’s a fair one. On the surface, secrecy and auditability sound like they’re pulling in opposite directions. They’re not. In fact, when an online ballot is set up properly, you end up with […]

Spend enough time around strata meetings and you’ll notice something pretty quickly: not all votes carry the same weight. That catches people off guard. Especially new owners who walk in assuming it’s a simple one vote per person setup. In reality, a lot of decisions — particularly the ones that matter — are influenced by […]

In insolvency work, creditor meetings tend to look procedural on paper. Votes are lodged, outcomes are counted, and resolutions pass or fail. Simple enough. But anyone who’s spent time in this space knows it’s rarely that clean. When there’s something significant at stake, voting behaviour can become… strategic. That’s where vote stacking comes into the […]

Two fundamentally different ways to count votes When people talk about elections, the focus is usually on who wins. Less attention gets paid to how that result is actually produced — yet the counting method can shape the outcome just as much as the candidates themselves. Two systems come up again and again: first past […]

What Happens If Your Protected Action Ballot Fails? A failed protected action ballot (PAB) can feel like a setback. There’s no point dressing that up — if employees don’t support industrial action, it changes the tone of bargaining overnight. But it’s not the end of the road. In practice, I’ve seen plenty of negotiations regain […]

ISO-Certified Voting Providers — Why Certification Really Matters When you work in governance or elections long enough, you start to notice a simple pattern: most problems don’t come from the voting process itself, they come from uncertainty about how that process is managed behind the scenes. That’s where certification becomes more than a badge on […]

If you’re putting an enterprise agreement (EA) to a vote, the Better Off Overall Test — usually shortened to “BOOT” — is the hurdle that ultimately decides whether it gets approved. It’s not a tick-the-box exercise. The Fair Work Commission will scrutinise the agreement in detail, and if it doesn’t pass the BOOT, it simply […]

Proxy voting is one of those things that looks routine… right up until it isn’t. Most meetings run smoothly. Then you hit one where a proxy’s been submitted late, or the form doesn’t quite line up with the Act, and suddenly you’re dealing with objections mid-meeting. Not ideal. Under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), proxy […]