Happy New Year from OpaVote! We are based in the Boston area, which means that winter has arrived and our local yeti is roaming the streets! I don’t know if he supports ranked-choice voting, but I’ll try and find out.
We’ll use this end of the year round up to give you an overview of all the accomplishments over the past year.
Some OpaVote customers are nervous about the security of online elections. To reduce risk, OpaVote follows many security best practices, and in this post we explain some of them to reassure you that it is safe to run your elections with OpaVote.
Some elections require a supermajority to cause an action to happen. A supermajority means more than a majority, and the most common supermajority requirements are 2/3 or 3/4 of the voters.
In this post we explain how you can implement a supermajority requirement for your online elections with OpaVote.
For important elections, you need to make sure that your online election provider has high security. With the recent news about the hacking of U.S. politicians and elections, you can’t be too paranoid.
We recently decided to do a security review, and we’d like to share our results with you. In addition, we also did a security review for a few of our competitors.
Getting voters to vote in your online elections can be a daunting task. Here, we’ll give you some tips for increasing your turnout.
This is a guest post from Mike Sawyer who runs a blog at Dare to Ask! and who collaborates with Prof. Brian Zurowski of Davidson College. Mike has some great ideas to promote ranked-choice voting and also how to allow voters to express more information about their preferences.
The single transferable vote (STV) is an amazing voting system because it naturally provides proportional representation. This means that the demographics or interests of the elected candidates will tend to match the demographics or interests of the voters.
Some organizations want to use STV for their online elections, but also want to require that the elected candidates meet a specified requirement. For example, an organization might want to require that half the elected candidates are women and half are men.