Example Online Votes       

If you would like to try your hand at conducting a vote for your group, click on WVB Registration and follow the directions from there.

Family . An extended family, located around the country, wanted to have a surprise birthday party for Grandma.  There were four children and 8 grandchildren that would want to attend but they were having difficulty deciding when they could all get together.  One of the daughters, Mary, found out that Grandma was free on three days around her birthday and sponsored a WVB web vote asking the 12 prospective attendees which of the three days they could come. 

On March 3^rd, Mary went to WVB and completed site registration.  She then selected Vote Setup and entered, “Which of the following three days can you come to Grandma’s birthday party?”  The answer selections were “April 22”, “April 24”, “April 28”.  Mary set the vote password to “Grandma” and the registration and voting dates for March 3^rd to March 17^th giving everyone plenty of time to respond.  She decided to use “Approval voting” so everyone could select all of the dates that they could make it.  No special security measures were needed for this vote.  She then e-mailed the automatically prepared Voter Instructions, which include the Vote Question number, vote password and dates to each of the 12 relatives using the handy email feature on the Voter Instruction page. 

When the relatives received the instructions they first went to WVB and completed site registration using their own personal passwords.  Then they completed Vote Registration using the Vote Question number and vote password (“Grandma”) sent in the instructions.  Several of the relatives suggested presents for Grandma in the Opinion page for that vote.  On March 18th, Mary and the other relatives went back to WVB, did site sign in and vote sign in. They then went to the Vote Tally page and found that all but one relative could come on April 24th. 

Later, Mary conducted another vote deciding which of the suggested presents to get for Grandma.  For that vote she automatically registered all of the voters using the "Register Previous Voters Automatically" feature on the Vote Setup page.  (This feature allows sponsors to automatically register their past registrants for new votes.)  She then went to the Voter List page and automatically emailed a notification of the vote to all 12 relatives with a single click.

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Business.  The sales department in a Fortune 500 company division wanted to select a location for their annual department meeting and awards ceremony by vote of the department’s 83 members.  However, many of the department members were on the road making conventional balloting impossible.  So the manager asked the administrative assistant, Roxanne, to setup an online election on the WVB. 

On June30, after site registration Roxanne entered the question,

“At which of the following sites should we have our annual sales meeting and awards ceremony this year?  You can enter your opinion on your choice in the WVB opinion page for this vote.  Also enter your opinion on who should be sales person of the year!"

The answer selections were, “Club Fortuna in Freeport, Bahamas”, “Club Dominicus Beach in Dominican Republic”, “Club Maya Beach in Playcar, Mexico”, “Club Viva Vallarta in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico “.  The registration dates were set to June 30 to July 30 and the voting dates were set to August 14 to September 10 giving everyone plenty of time to register and vote.  Roxanne decided on conventional voting rather than approval voting although either would be acceptable for this vote.  She then e-mailed the automatically prepared Voter Instructions, which include the Vote Question number (“562”), vote password (“roxanne”) and dates to each of the 83 department members using the handy email feature on the Voter Instruction page. 

When the sales people received the instructions they first went to WVB and completed site registration using their own personal passwords.  Then they completed Vote Registration using the Vote Question number (“562”) and vote password (“roxanne”) sent in the instructions.  (Passwords are case sensitive.)  After the registration period was over, Roxanne (as the vote sponsor) wanted to check the validity of the registrations.  Before voting started on August 14th, she reviewed the list of registered voters on the WVB Voter List page.  She found that there was one name on the list that was not in the group and that registration was removed by removing the validation check on the Voter List page.  Another person had inadvertently registered twice and one of their registrations was also removed.  The sales people returned during the voting period,  read the entered opinions and voted to go to Club Dominicus Beach in Dominican Republic for their meeting.  All of the sales people could see the voting results after September 10.  Later, Roxanne conducted a vote on sales person of the year.

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School.  Glenview Michigan High School wanted to conduct an election for their student body officers.  A teacher, Mr. Hoag, volunteered to be the official sponsor of the vote at WVB.  The elections were scheduled one month away so each candidate would have plenty of time to campaign. 

After registering at WVB, Mr. Hoag opened a vote intended exclusively for the purpose of registering the entire student body of 354 students.  Some additional volunteers entered WVB site registration details for the students at WVB using student last names as usernames and confidential student ID numbers for passwords.  No WVB site registration by the students themselves was therefore required.  A dummy vote question and answers were entered for the initial "vote" which was used only for registration.  Before registration was completed, Mr. Hoag and the volunteers reviewed the registrant list for errors using the Voter List page and made a few corrections as necessary. 

Mr. Hoag then setup four votes for class officers, one each for president, vice president, secretary and treasurer.  The previous registration feature was used for setting up these votes so no further registration activity was required.  This feature allows the sponsor of a previous vote to automatically register people that registered for that vote in a new vote.  The same vote password, glenview, was used for all four votes. Computers with internet access were set aside in the library and in one other convenient location for use in the election.  The voting period was set for October 24 and 25. Each student signed on at WVB using their name and confidential student ID number previously entered by the volunteers.  They then signed on for the four votes using the vote numbers and vote password (glenview) provided and cast their confidential votes.  Some students decided to vote from home or other convenient locations.  The student body could see the election results first hand at WVB on October 26th on the Vote Tally page. 

Later, a poll on the quality of the new cafeteria food was conducted using the same registrant list.