Electronic Ballot Format

[Guest Patricia McDougle]

Three directors are to be elected by plurality vote to the board of directors from a pool of seven candidates. Voting will be by electronic means (Audience Response Devices).

1. How should be electronic ballot be formatted in order to comply with the concept of one ballot for the election of directors? In standard format, the ballot would list the seven names with instructions to vote for three.

2. Depending on the format of the electronic ballot, what control is there over an individual voting for more than the number to be elected? In the example, the maximum votes would be three.

[Josh Martin]

Three directors are to be elected by plurality vote to the board of directors from a pool of seven candidates. Voting will be by electronic means (Audience Response Devices).

1. How should be electronic ballot be formatted in order to comply with the concept of one ballot for the election of directors? In standard format, the ballot would list the seven names with instructions to vote for three.

2. Depending on the format of the electronic ballot, what control is there over an individual voting for more than the number to be elected? In the example, the maximum votes would be three.

This question is beyond the scope of RONR and this forum, since it deals with developing customized rules.

If you sign up as a member so other members of the forum can contact you privately, however, I'm sure myself or someone else who attended the 2011 NAP Biennial Convention can provide something for you, since we had a very similar situation.

[jstackpo]

And you also have to allow (somehow!) for write-in votes which gets a little tricky.

Send me your e-mail and I can ship you a document.

[Gary Novosielski]

Three directors are to be elected by plurality vote to the board of directors from a pool of seven candidates. Voting will be by electronic means (Audience Response Devices).

1. How should be electronic ballot be formatted in order to comply with the concept of one ballot for the election of directors? In standard format, the ballot would list the seven names with instructions to vote for three.

2. Depending on the format of the electronic ballot, what control is there over an individual voting for more than the number to be elected? In the example, the maximum votes would be three.

Since you're not using majority voting, your bylaws apparently supersede RONR. The formatting of the ballot, and controls in the balloting process would seem to be more like customer support questions to the manufacture of your voting system, rather than rules of order.