Voting

Setting up your vote with the agenda

In order to make good decisions, your board members should be prepared and well informed. In BoardPro, votes can be added as an agenda item in the draft agenda stage. When you set up the vote, you can write a motion and attach supporting documents to this item. You can also choose whether the voting will be anonymous or not. Once the agenda is published, the critical information that board members need prior to voting will be circulated out in the board pack. This empowers them to feel confident that they have the information required to make their decision at the meeting.

Record votes in real time

When it’s time to cast a vote, board members can choose to either support, oppose, or abstain from the vote. Board members who are logged into BoardPro during the meeting can click the ‘cast your vote’ button to place a vote right from their device. If a board member doesn’t have their device with them, an administrator cast a vote on their behalf. When this happens, the board member will receive email confirmation that someone voted for them, and what the vote was.

Approved votes automatically add to your decision register

When your board members finish voting on a topic, BoardPro automatically calculates the outcome of the vote based on your settings. If your board requires a majority support for a vote to pass, you can set this up once, and then forget about it! BoardPro will do the tricky part and calculate the outcome of your vote and generate a decision for you. The approved votes automatically add to your decision register.