School Poll for elections

Example Poll
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• Vote counting methods
  1. First-past-the-post (FPTP), also known as simple majority voting.
     This means the candidate with the most votes wins. See example of poll result using first-past-the-post.
  2. Instant-runoff voting (IRV).
     This means voters rank candidates in order of preference. If no candidate receives an overall majority of first preferences the candidates with the lowest number of first preferences are eliminated progressively and their votes transferred according to their next preferences until a winner is achieved.
  3. Proportional voting.
     This is similar to instant-runoff voting but with more than one winner and a fraction of the winning votes, according to the excess above the quota, are also distributed.
     See example of poll result using proportional
     preferential voting.
  4. Preferential voting.
     Instant runoff and proportional voting use preferential voting which can be optional or compulsory. Preferences are allocated and distributed automatically to produce winners. You set the minimum and maximum number of candidates that people must vote for and the number of winners.
  5. Candidates can also be grouped into categories and a minimum number of winners allocated to each category.
• no manual vote counting
• no risk from repeat voting
• you know exactly who voted
• students can vote from anywhere online
• the result is immediate.

Technology features

• First-past-the-post, optional preferential voting, instant-runoff voting and proportional voting
  First-past-the-post means the candidates with the most votes win. Preferential voting 1 2 3 type voting, also called instant-runoff voting, means if no candidate receives an overall majority of first preferences the candidates with the lowest number of first preferences are eliminated progressively and their votes transferred according to their next preferences until a winner is achieved. Proportional voting is similar to instant-runoff voting but with more than one winner and a fraction of the winning votes, according to the excess above the quoted, are also distributed. Preferential voting can be optional or compulsory. Preferences are allocated and distributed automatically to produce winners. You set the minimum and maximum number of candidates that people must vote for and the number of winners. Candidates can also be grouped into categories and a minimum number of winners allocated to each category.
• Secure voting
  You can pre-generate voting accounts for each student in seconds. If you have student email addresses you can use the integrated bulk email system to send each pupil a personalized email which includes an automatic sign-in link to your polls or poll menu – just click and vote.
• Candidate bio page
  A bio page can be attached to the name of each candidate in the online ballot. If you wish candidates can also be granted online editing rights to their own bio page.
• Candidate pictures
  You can upload a picture of each candidate for display next to each pupil's name in the online ballot and set the size of the image displayed.
• Votes counted live
  All votes are counted live automatically.
• Poll menu
  All election polls can appear in an online menu which can be linked from your website. Student can see which polls they have already voted in.
• Vote receipt
  A vote receipt page is displayed immediately after the vote and also sent by email to the voter.
• Run many online election polls simultaneously
  You can run many online election polls at the same time with ease. Selected polls can be linked so that voters are led through the poll menu automatically.
• View who votes
  You can see who has voted at any time.
• Send reminder emails
  You can send reminder emails to those people who have not yet voted.
• Paper ballots
  Input paper ballots with ease.
• Multi-user
  You can nominate people to be part of your support team. These people have access to your online Poll Manager and appear in a support team list in your Poll Manager webpage. You can add and remove people from this support team list with a few clicks. You can also tailor the access level allowed for each support person.
• Anonymous voting or transparent voting
  Anonymous voting means no one can see how each person votes and this is the default configuration. Alternately a voter agreement can be used to inform pupils that the poll administrators can see how each person votes. You can also use fully transparent voting which means everyone can see how each person votes – like a show of hands.
• Vote count transparency options
  Candidate vote counts and rankings are usually suppressed from all but the poll administrators. However you can choose to shows the top candidates ranked live in the ballot, such as the current top three listed in order or alphabetically with other candidates listed underneath alphabetically. Alternately you can allow everyone to see the vote counts live as the poll progresses.
• Let people change their votes
  Repeat voting is another optional feature. This enables people to return and change their vote a set number of times in each poll before the online election poll close date. Repeat voting never corrupts the vote count because only the last vote for each person is counted in the vote tally.
• Discussion forums
  Each poll and each candidate can include a dedicated discussion forum with threads. You can moderate these forums.

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