About Vox

Vox is an online voting service for groups and organizations. A Vox poll consists of one or more elections. Each election presents a set of choices for voters. Voters vote for their choices by submitting a ballot.

Vox supports conventional first-past-the-post elections and ranked choice elections.

Conventional elections are won by the candidate with the most votes, even if they don’t have a majority. Ranked choice elections use instant runoff voting if no candidate has a majority after the first round. In such cases, the candidate with the least votes is eliminated. Voters whose top choice was eliminated have their second choice vote counted in the next round. The process is repeated until either a remaining candidate has a majority, or all remaining candidates are tied.

When a poll is opened, eligible voters are notified by email containing a link to their ballot. Voters authenticate themselves, then complete and submit their ballot. Voters may modify their ballot whilst the poll is open.

Once a poll has been closed ballots may not be submitted or modified. Vox counts the votes and completes the poll by publishing the results. Voters are notified by email when results are published.

Vox has support for multiple organizations, each isolated from the others. Organizations have their own administrators who manage polls and voter rolls. Administrators can not modify polls once they are open, except to close them to initiate counting. They can not modify or view voters’ ballots.