Four Reasons to Outsource Your Online Voting
11:21 am in Associations, Online Voting by Votenet Updates
When an active association in the health care industry assigned an inhouse IT director to build an online voting system for their 2,000 members a decade ago, the members embraced the change. But in the next few years, the association doubled in size and the IT director moved on, and the staff discovered they lacked the time and knowledge to maintain the system.
Losing key staff to manage an inhouse online voting system is just one challenge organizations face when they try to use internal resources for their system. In fact, organizations often don’t realize the risk they’re taking when they don’t outsource the project.
Here’s our list of the top four reasons your organization should find a reliable online voting vendor for their elections and other voting events:
- Protect Your Organization Against Lawsuits and Election Fraud
An online voting vendor should dedicate significant resources to maintaining system integrity with 256-bit, bank-level encryption and data security that safeguard your results. The system must include multiple certifications for security, accuracy, privacy and compliance by independent, third-party organizations to provide election-certified reports and auditable results. - Bypass Up-Front Development Fees and Delays
A turnkey platform eliminates start-up costs and inevitable rollout delays that accompany the development and launch of an inhouse system. - Avoid the Disruption of Staff Turnover
Inhouse systems often depend on key staffers for maintenance and upgrades. Employee turnover means learning curves for new system administrators that may compromise the platform’s integrity or necessitate an overhaul. Using Reliable online voting software ensures your voters can count on an interface and system they know and understand. - Save Time and Money
A recent survey of 100+ online voting clients showed switching to online voting means significant savings – for both time and money. And almost 75% said they spend less time on voting events with a reliable, secure online voting system.
I’ve heard a number of times ‘I would rather hold a company responsible rather than have my job on the line when my system fails’…..Having an outside vendor helps individual staff predict/prepare for worst case scenarios and allows ‘experts’ use their previous experience and preparedness to avoid them!
I often see that convincing the staff that is in charge of the elections is easy and they are often all for online voting. it is convincing those that dont understand the amount of work saved in the process that is tough.
Because those executives dont deal with the day to day problems with their current voting process, it is hard to convince them of the positives, but the talking points above make a lot of sense when you mention them to executives on calls or in meetings.