Step 1. You or another Admin creates a poll

Your Admins are the folks who design your ballot questionnaire, load your voter list, deploy your poll, and get your results. If you ask us to manage your online poll for you, your Admins are the folks who answer our questions so we can do that.

Step 2. Pick at least two Officers

Your Officers are the people who review the ballot questionnaire to help the Admins look for any mistakes. Their passwords also protect the anonymity of the votes and the integrity of the results.

Step 3. Design your ballot

With input and feedback from the Officers, your Admins design the ballot – or if you select a subscription with turn-key support, our experts design it for you.

Step 4. Load your voter list

Your voters are loaded into BallotBox by name and email address. If your subscription plan includes our VoterSignUp service, we can help you collect email addresses from your voters.

Step 5. Configure your online poll

You set your poll’s title, when it starts and ends, and other settings.

Step 6. Deploy your poll for review

When you’re ready, deploy your poll.  BallotBox emails your Officers to ask them to review and approve the ballot.

Step 7. Your poll launches

After your Officers approve the ballot, each of your voters gets an emailed invitation to vote at the poll’s scheduled start time.

Step 8. Your voters vote

Your voters click a button in the emails from BallotBox, and are taken directly to your ballot to vote. For long ballots, voters have the option to save a draft and come back later to finish it.

Step 9. BallotBox records the votes

BallotBox protects each cast ballot with strong encryption. No one, not even BallotBox employees, can see how anyone voted (unless you specify that a question will not be anonymous). BallotBox also emails a confirmation to each voter.

Step 10. You unlock your results

The moment your poll closes, a quorum of your Officers can get together to enter their passwords into BallotBox. The results are instantly available.

Now that you know how BallotBox works…

You can take a look at our subscription plans to see which is right for you, contact us to get more information about BallotBox and our different plans, or just set up a free, no-obligation account and kick the tires.