need help with anonymous voting

[rattlsnak]

Hey all, I am a league VP for a local men's hockey league and we have elected officers that get voted in every year. Trying to find an (easy = cheap) way to send ballots to each individual player's email addresses. We have previously just been using google forms and sending out a link but we have discovered fraud this election as someone (we have a pretty good idea of who it is) got a hold of their emails and has been logging in and voting as them. Google forms does not track IP addresses or logins so no way to prove what happened other than we called several of those players on the list and they all said that they did not participate. We need to find another way to send out secure voting links to each player. Any idea on how we can do this? We have a website available if it is something that needs to be web driven.

[stomachmonkey]

How many people are you sending to?

Open a Mailchimp account, free if less than 2,000 email addresses or $9.99 per month if under 50k email addresses.

Use a poll embedded in email.

If you regularly communicate with members you should be using a bulk email service anyway, you’ll get valuable info on the effectiveness of your outreach.

[rattlsnak]

It would be about @1,500 people. But couldn't that person simply forward that email to someone else? Which I suppose we would have no control over but that;s not what happened in this case anyway.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by rattlsnak

It would be about @1,500 people. But couldn't that person simply forward that email to someone else? Which I suppose we would have no control over but that;s not what happened in this case anyway.

One vote per email address.

Not logical for someone to forward their email to someone else to vote on their behalf.

[rattlsnak]

Could the person who received the initial email, forward it to another email and that second person could vote.? (as long as it wasn't a duplicate? or will it only take votes on emails that it was sent to?

(we don't want anybody forwarding it to 10 other people or ten other of their own addresses.

[svandamme]

each link has to be unique and one time use only
else people can vote as much as they like...

So sending the emails out isn't the real problem here.

[wdfifteen]

Is it easy to set up 2 factor authentication?

[svandamme]

naw, and defo defeats the purpose of being anonymous

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by rattlsnak

Could the person who received the initial email, forward it to another email and that second person could vote.? (as long as it wasn't a duplicate? or will it only take votes on emails that it was sent to?

(we don't want anybody forwarding it to 10 other people or ten other of their own addresses.

Pm me your email, I’ll set one up in a spare account i have and you can test it

[rattlsnak]

sent..

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by rattlsnak

sent..

I'll try to get to it this evening.

[rattlsnak]

ok great. and if it doesnt work the way we need it to, we will probably go with.. https://support.electionbuddy.com/article/411-extra-security-two-factor-authentication