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Featured articles

• What is SimpleVote?A practical overview of how online elections work in SimpleVote, and who does what.
• Your first election checklistA dry-run path from creating an election to publishing results.
• Roles explained: Admin, Manager, and EROHow to split organisational ownership, election coordination, and day-to-day returning officer work across your team.
• Confirm voters vs Open votingTwo deliberate steps: lock the roll without emailing, then send magic-link invitations when you are truly ready.
• Self-nomination workflowLet candidates apply through a public link, then approve or reject them before you open voting.
• How voter credits workCredits pay for invitation emails. Confirming the list, reminders, and results broadcasts do not spend them.
• How to vote with your email linkWhat members should do when the ballot email arrives, and what to try if they cannot find it.
• Calculate and publish resultsClose the poll, run the count, check the outcome, then publish (and optionally email) the result.
• Security and privacy at a glanceWhere data lives, what organisers can and cannot see, and where the formal legal pages are.

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