| Intuitive and easy to use |
The web-based BigPulse Poll Manager is intuitive with easy
to navigate popdown menus.
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| Template polls and setup wizard |
Create new surveys and in seconds. Choose from a list of template
polls with various security and transparency settings or create
your own templates. While some templates provide convenient fully formed
polls, which can be launched in seconds, you can edit the
wording and tailor the settings of any poll at any time with
the poll configuration menu.
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| Vote counting methods |
Apart from the common method of selecting one or more boxes, various forms or ranked and range voting can be used.
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| Control who can vote and partition voters into groups |
You can group your voters and polls into as many different
voting groups or clusters as you wish. You decide which surveys and polls
each group of voters has access to.
High security voting accounts can be created in four different ways:
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Remote sign-in link. If your voters have existing sign-in names and passwords used to access your own website, then you can place a seamless auto sign-in link to your polls in your website. This means people can vote with the same sign-in accounts already in use. The BigPulse voting accounts are created automatically the first time people visit a poll. On repeat visits people are matched up to the same BigPulse voting account automatically.
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Remote authentication. This is another way to use existing sign-in names and passwords. With this method you invite people to sign in directly at the sign-in page of the online ballot using their existing sign-in details. You provide a special URL that BigPulse can access to authenticate the users' sign-in details.
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Generate voting accounts. You can generate the voting accounts before inviting people to vote. You can set the sign-in names and passwords and other personal details such as name and email address with a single simple block copy and paste from a spreadsheet or CSV file upload. You can also generate the sign-in names and passwords automatically with random characters. If you include emails then you can also use the integrated bulk email manager to send people vote invitations with auto sign-in links to your polls or poll menus. These emails are created in your usual email composer and appear to come directly from you. This method is particularly easy for the voters – people just open their email, click the link and are immediately at the poll or poll menu signed in ready to vote.
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Issue access PINs and invite people to register to vote. You can issue voting PINs and invite people to create their own sign-in name the first time they visit a poll. This method is particularly useful when people already have a personal ID number and none of the above methods are convenient. You simply block copy to PIN list into your BigPulse Poll Manager and activate the register link in the poll.
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| True anonymous or transparent polling |
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Absolute anonymous storage. This means there is nothing in the database linking the vote to the voter.
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Anonymous voting. This setting means no one sees how each person votes however the votes are linked the user voting accounts in the database which means the change vote feature can be used.
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Transparent voting. This means the poll administrators can see how each person votes.
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Fully transparent voting. This means everyone can see how each
person votes – like a show of hands.
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| Multi-language |
Display your polls in any major language. The polls will
default to the preferred language of the user. Users can also
choose their preferred language of display.
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| Overvotes and undervotes |
Overvotes and undervotes are controlled or prevented
automatically.
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| Integrated bulk emailer |
Emails can be composed in your usual email composer. Each
person can be sent a personalized email which includes an
automatic sign-in link to your polls or poll menu. This method
enables full control over who can vote yet voters do not need
to remember or even know their sign-in details – just
click and vote. See Screenshots
bulk email libray
and
bulk email send options.
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| Write-ins for interactive polls |
Our patent pending write-in technology is used for interactive polls. People can add new voting choices to the poll. It means every voice is heard.
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| Vote open and close dates |
Set the vote open and close date and time in your own time
zone. The voting will open and close automatically at these
times.
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| Rotation |
Automatic rotation of the voting options can be used to eliminate any bias caused by the
order of presentation of the voting selections.
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| Vote for pictures |
People can vote for pictures and you have control over the image display.
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| Votes counted live |
All votes are counted live automatically. Your appointed poll
administrators can view the live counts in the online polls
and in the poll result reports.
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| Create separate polls for different groups |
Sometimes you might want to restrict voting in some polls to
selected people or groups. This is easy to do with BigPulse.
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| Vote dependent path |
Define different pathways depending on how people vote in selected polls or questions.
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| Poll menu |
Your polls can appear in an online menu which can be
linked from your website. When voters view the poll menu they
see which polls they have already voted in.
See example menu.
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| Run many online surveys and polls simultaneously |
You can run many online polls at the same time with ease. Selected polls can be linked so that voters are led through the poll menu automatically.
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| View who votes |
You can see who has voted at any time without compromising the
integrity of anonymous polls.
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| Send reminder emails |
You can send reminder emails to those people who have not yet voted.
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| Integrate paper returns with online voting |
If some of your members prefer to respond on paper these paper returns can be input with ease to produce and integrated result.
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| 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 web page. You can add
and remove people from this support team. You can also tailor
the access level allowed for each support person.
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| 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 people 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.
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| Vote count transparency options |
Vote counts and rankings are usually suppressed from
all but the poll administrators. However you can choose to show
the vote counts live in the online poll.
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| 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.
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| Download vote history data for audits and graphical analysis |
You can download the raw vote data and import it into a
spreadsheet or other application for audits or graphical
analysis. This does not compromise the anonymity of voters when
anonymous voting is used.
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| Poll result reports and cross-tabulated vote filters |
You can invent tailored selectors which you can use to filter
vote results by region, category, division or any grouping you
want. Results can be viewed for each grouping separately or in
cross-tabulated form.
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| Discussion forums |
Each poll and each candidate can include a dedicated discussion forum with threads. You can moderate these forums.
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| Outstanding support service |
Clients tell us our support service is fantastic. Of course
if you take the fully managed service we operate the web-based
Poll Manager for you. With the self-managed service you can
count on us any time you need help.
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| Elections, surveys and Opinion Markets |
Exactly the same technology is used for
secure online elections, surveys and continuous interactive
Opinion Markets. All your polling remains integrated in the same system. This also means people only need one voting account to access your election and survey polls.
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