Today, leading associations often leverage the internet and web-based solutions to achieve solid election results and to strengthen their brand and organization. The Voting module allows you to directly conduct elections and other votes with members to help drive and determine the direction of your organization. This saves overhead by eliminating the need for expensive paper ballots and consultants to drive the process.

Create a voting folder

Before you create your ballots, you must create folders in which to "store" them.

1. Navigate to Modules > Voting > Folders.
2. Click Add Voting Folder and specify a name.

3. Click Save and Continue.

Voting flexibility

Each voter can cast only one vote, and the voting administrator defines the minimum and maximum responses allowed for each question on the ballot. Thrive Marketing Professional ensures that the responses are within the specified range before accepting a voter's ballot.

Similarly, all votes are automatically counted as they are received by the ballot management system. Administrators can even view the ballot results in real-time.

NOTE: You can simultaneously run as many ballots as needed. Just make sure you have the logistics in place to properly manage all active ballots.

Vote-submit-confirm process

It's important to understand that a vote does not count unless your subscribers have confirmed their submission. Subscribers initially receive an invitation mailing with a link to the ballot. After they've entered their selections on the ballot, they submit their vote for confirmation. This triggers an automatic confirmation mailing where they can review and must confirm their votes.

Only those votes that have been confirmed are counted.

See Create & Publish Voting Mailings to learn about creating and sending a mailing with your voting ballots.