Church Leadership Election

ElectionBuddy is a comprehensive online voting tool with editing features to create a sample church election ballot in advance. Organizers can distribute separate ballots to different groups if they need to manage several church ministry board elections simultaneously.

Preparing a digital sample ballot is considerably faster than manually designing a voting form, and election officers can reduce manual work, such as organizing vote counts and sending reminders.

Churches with remote or worldwide memberships or a diverse range of ages within the congregation can also combine postal, in-person, and proxy votes to improve access.

Any errors in the election of church officers can create animosity, distrust in the church election procedure, and additional costs where administrators must repeat the election or recount votes.

Online church election ballots reduce the potential for human error, including mistakes made by voters, spoiled ballots, loss of voting slips, and incorrect counts.

Church ministry board elections may be unsuccessful if insufficient votes are cast or may not reflect the view of all congregation members if a large proportion cannot attend to submit a physical ballot.

Online voting allows every voter to participate using a secure link through any internet-connected device and from anywhere in the world.

Election marketing can be time intensive, yet it is important to improve voter turnout in clergy elections and ensure a democratic, verified, and representative outcome.

Administrators can set up automated reminders through ElectionBuddy, alerting voters of upcoming deadlines, prompting those that have not yet voted to do so, and verifying that a vote cast in the election of church officers has been safely submitted.

An elder or pastor election can be broadcast live through a web page and linked to your poll to show the number of votes collated to generate interest and enthusiasm.

Once your ElectionBuddy ballot closes, the results are tallied and published immediately, with the option to disseminate the outcomes to all voters or the wider congregation with a verified count of votes cast for transparency.

Showing results quickly and circulating these via email ensures all participants receive an update and are better engaged in the process, with options to add important information about the process and voting rights linked to the election of church leaders.

Church administrators do not need any technical know-how to benefit from the extensive range of ElectionBuddy tools and can even create mock elections to test the software and experiment with sample church election ballot designs.