About Vox

Vox is an online voting service for groups and organizations. Vox users can create polls that consist of one or more elections. Each election presents a set of choices to voters to vote on by submitting a ballot.

Elections

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 attempt to better reflect voters’ preferences when no candidate has a majority. Voters rank candidates instead of selecting a single candidate. When no candidate has a majority, instant runoff voting is performed. 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 candidate has a majority, or all remaining candidates are tied.

Polls

Voters are notified when a poll is opened. They must authenticate themselves to submit their ballots. Voters may modify their ballots while 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 and notifying voters.

Organizations

Each organization is isolated and has its own administrators. Administrators can create and close polls, and manage voter rolls within their organization, but they cannot modify polls once they are open, or modify or view voters’ ballots.