A comprehensive voting process prioritizes requirements such as fast, immediate, fair, etc.
- If you want to increase the number of voters, you must make it convenient for respondents to participate in voting at any time.
- If you want to accurately tally data, you must effectively prevent the possibility of malicious program voting or vote flooding.
- If you want to boost the atmosphere of an event, you can allow everyone to see the voting results immediately after voting.
Here, we will introduce how to create a complete online voting system through SurveyCake, helping you quickly establish voting surveys to easily increase the number of voters; avoid duplicate voting or vote flooding, effectively ensuring data accuracy; and immediately publish voting results for greater participant engagement!
Prevent vote flooding, enhance survey security. Instantly publish voting results to boost voting interaction!
I. Create a Voting Survey
Creating a voting survey through SurveyCake not only allows unlimited questions and options within the form, but also has no limit on the number of answers received! Better yet, the system supports multi-device responses, allowing smooth voting whether respondents use a smartphone, desktop, or tablet, making it completely feasible for thousands of people to vote!
As for whether SurveyCake can successfully handle instant mass crowd responses? Rest assured! SurveyCake employs the most advanced IaaS provider – Amazon Web Service. Over the years, we have successfully handled surveys with tens of thousands of participants, online real-time voting with hundreds of thousands of participants, and even surveys with millions of responses.
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How to Create a Voting Survey – Blank Survey or Selected Templates
First, you must log in to SurveyCake to create a voting survey in the survey dashboard. You can choose to design a blank survey or directly apply templates (Note: both the content and images within the templates can be adjusted as needed)
For example, the “Art Work Polls” template includes voting option introductions, voting reason surveys, personal data collection, and more, which you can directly apply or modify.
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Form Design – Inserting Images and Videos into Options
You can insert images and videos into options because everyone’s understanding of text varies. With appropriate images or videos, respondents can make more intuitive judgments during voting!
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Limiting the Number of Votes – Limit Options
Through the “Limit Options” function within multiple-choice questions, you can set the number of votes per respondent, allowing them to vote for at least or at most a certain number of options. This not only makes voting surveys more flexible but also aligns better with respondents’ preferences, as you surely don’t want respondents to randomly vote just to use up their allotted votes.
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Determining the Priority of Options – Ranking Questions
In addition to knowing the options respondents prefer, if you also want to know the priority of options in respondents’ minds, then you absolutely cannot miss the “Ranking” question. Through this question, as shown in the image below, you can let respondents rank voting reasons to understand which reasons are most important to them.
At the same time, SurveyCake’s “Chart Report” automatically generates statistical charts for responses to item ranking questions, along with weighted results for your reference. For example, if respondents need to rank 3 options, the option ranked first carries a weight of 3, the second-ranked option carries a weight of 2, and the third-ranked option carries a weight of 1, and so on. This allows us to determine the importance of each option in respondents’ minds.
II.Setting Voting Restrictions
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Preventing Vote Flooding – Unrepeatable / Responses Quarantine Zone / reCAPTCHA / Find Duplicate IPs
To improve voting quality and ensure data authenticity, SurveyCake provides various features to prevent duplicate responses and vote flooding, helping you collect the most accurate data for precise analysis and decision-making.
1. Unrepeatable (Text Verification)
If your survey involves named voting, you can conduct text verification to prevent voters from entering the same text (e.g., name, phone number, email, etc.) and thus avoid the possibility of duplicate voting. If the system detects duplicate answers, the form cannot be submitted, and the voter cannot successfully vote.
2.Responses Quarantine Zone (Response Time / Browser Verification)
If you want to retain all respondents’ answers but segregate invalid responses, the “Responses Quarantine Zone” can help you retain and “isolate” these invalid responses.
What are invalid responses? Responses filled out very quickly, carelessly, or repeatedly. If a form is filled out in less than ten seconds, it’s clear the respondent didn’t carefully read the questions before voting. Or if the form keeps receiving repeated responses, the voter may be repeatedly voting solely to increase their chances of winning a prize.
Unlike the Unrepeatable feature, which verifies based on identical text, response isolation is based on “browsers” to determine duplicate responses.
3. Isolate by Response Time: Isolate responses with “response time less than a certain number of seconds”
You can set a minimum time limit for responses, and any responses completed in less than this time limit will be automatically isolated. For example, if a respondent completes a survey in less than 10 seconds, their response will be automatically isolated.
4. Isolate Duplicate Responses: Browser Verification
When the same browser responds more than once, the response will be automatically isolated, but you can set the time interval for recalculating.
For example, if you set the recalculation time to 1 day, and a voter uses Chrome to vote twice “today,” the second response will be isolated. But if they use Chrome to vote “the next day,” their response will be included in the results as normal and will not be isolated.
5. reCAPTCHA (Preventing Malicious Program Attacks)
By enabling “reCAPTCHA” on your voting form, the system can automatically determine whether respondents are human, preventing malicious individuals from undermining the fairness of the event or making illicit gains.
6. Find Duplicate IPs
SurveyCake automatically records the IP address for each response, so you can also determine duplicate responses by filtering duplicate IP records.
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Setting Survey Status – Private / Public
If your voting form is private rather than public, you can set a password for your form. This way, only those who know the password can vote, avoiding interference in the survey results from unauthorized individuals.
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Limiting Voting Time – Survey Period
You can limit the opening time of the voting form through the “Survey Period,” setting the time from the year, date, to the precise hour. If the time is before or after the specified time, the voting form will automatically close and no longer accept responses.
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Limiting Total Voters – Response Limit
If you want to limit the number of voters, you can restrict the number of responses the form can receive through the “Response Limit.” For example, if you want to offer incentives to the first 1,000 voters, you can set the form response limit to 1,000. Once the form receives 1,000 responses, it will automatically close, and the 1,001st person will be unable to vote.
III. After Voting
After voting, how can you promote interaction with voters to make the voting activity more lively and receive better feedback? And how can you capitalize on the hard-earned influx of voters and convert them into potential customer lists for future event promotions or advertising?
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Enhance Voting Interaction – Instantly Publish Results
After voting, everyone is curious about how their votes performed and how others voted. Allowing voters to immediately view the overall voting situation after voting not only makes the voting activity more lively but also satisfies voters’ psychological expectations.
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Capitalizing on the Influx of Voters – Redirect Button / Custom Thank-You Page
After attracting people to vote, it would be a waste if they left immediately after voting, wouldn’t it?
After voters submit the form, they enter the thank you page, which has a powerful feature – “Redirect Button.” This feature allows you to insert any URL into a button so that respondents can click the button after completing the survey to go to the specified webpage. If you want to promote an event, you can insert a link to the official website or event page in the button; if you want to direct respondents to like a fan page, you can insert a link to your fan page.
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100% Guaranteed Traffic Diversion: Custom Thank-You Page
If you want to ensure that every person who participates in the vote is completely redirected to a designated page, “Custom Thank-You Page” guarantees that no one slips through the cracks.
Unlike the Redirect Button, where voters are directed to the thank you page after submitting the form, with the custom thank-you page, voters are not directed to the thank-you page after submitting the form but are instead directly redirected to the specified page (e.g., your official website, fan page, event page, etc.)
Start Building Your Online Voting System Now!
A complete online voting system not only helps you quickly collect voting results but also effectively solves problems such as vote flooding, duplicate responses, etc., and interacts effectively with voters, heating up the atmosphere of the event!
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