About Vox

Vox is an online voting system for groups and organizations. Vox supports standard and ranked choice elections. One or more elections are grouped into a poll to define a voting ballot. Voters submit their ballot to cast their votes for the poll’s elections.

Vox supports organizations, each with their own administrators. Administrators may create and edit polls and elections for their organization. Administrators define a voter roll for a poll’s elections by loading voter information from file. Once a poll’s elections and voter roll are ready, an administrator may open the poll. Once open, a poll’s elections may not be modified. Voters can submit and modify their ballots whilst the poll is open. An administrator may close a poll, preventing further voting. Vox tallies up the elections’ results when the poll is closed.

Vox emails eligible voters a voting link when a poll opens. Vox authenticates voters by email. Voters are emailed a security code and prompted to enter it before they can vote.

Vox supports

• standard (first past the post) voting and
• ranked choice with instant runoff voting.

Standard elections are won by the candidate with the most votes (plurality). Ranked choice elections use instant runoff voting. If there is no outright winner in the first round, the candidate with the least votes is eliminated. Voters whose candidate was eliminated have vote for their second choice candidate counted in the next round. The process is repeated until either one of the remaining candidates gets a majority, or there is a tie.