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title: "Elections"
slug: "run-an-election"
updated: 2025-05-23T22:50:45Z
published: 2025-05-23T22:50:45Z
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# Elections

This feature allows users to create mock and real elections for a class or a school. All users have the ability to create elections in Formspace, and only the election creator can see the results.

## **Creating a New Election**

1. On the **Manage** tab, click **Create a New Formspace Document**.
2. Choose **Election** as the type of document to create.
3. Enter a title****and complete the wizard.

![FS11.png](https://cdn.us.document360.io/d6ce927e-20b2-40ab-af8d-ea0afbbc28f7/Images/Documentation/fs11.png)

## **Election Details Tab**

The election title and description can be edited on this tab.

![FS12.png](https://cdn.us.document360.io/d6ce927e-20b2-40ab-af8d-ea0afbbc28f7/Images/Documentation/fs12.png)

## **Toolbar Icons**

- **Save** – Updates the information added to the election.
- **Delete** – Removes the election from the documents.
- **Print** – Creates a PDF document with results of the election and the tally of how many participants voted in the election.

## **Election Status Icons**

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/d6ce927e-20b2-40ab-af8d-ea0afbbc28f7/Images/Documentation/screen_shot_2015-04-08_at_2.png) Stops the election; no participants can vote.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/d6ce927e-20b2-40ab-af8d-ea0afbbc28f7/Images/Documentation/screen_shot_2015-04-08_at_2(1).png) Begins the election; allows participants to vote.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/d6ce927e-20b2-40ab-af8d-ea0afbbc28f7/Images/Documentation/screen_shot_2015-04-08_at_2(2).png) Pauses the election.

## **Adding Questions on the Ballot Questions Tab**

1. To create a ballot question, click **Add Ballot Question**.
2. Double click **New Ballot Question** to begin editing.
3. Type the ballot question in the appropriate text box.
4. Click **Add Ballot Option** to begin entering the choices for voting.
5. Click on the **New Ballot Option** to open the **Option Item** editing window at the bottom of the screen.
6. Type in a voting option and click **Save** at the bottom of the screen. Add additional options and save after each item addition.
7. Click **Save Question**in the top toolbar when the question and voting options are complete.
8. Use the up and down arrows to reorder questions in the list.
9. Click **Return to List** to see all questions on the ballot.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/d6ce927e-20b2-40ab-af8d-ea0afbbc28f7/Images/Documentation/2015-10-06_09-32-43.png)

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/d6ce927e-20b2-40ab-af8d-ea0afbbc28f7/Images/Documentation/2015-10-06_08-54-06.png)

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## **Ballot Codes Tab**

The**Ballot Codes** tab allows you to upload a list of potential codes. These codes can ensure that each voter only votes once. Ballot codes could be student IDs or randomly generated assigned numbers. Using ballot codes is optional. If no ballot codes are used, a person could technically vote more than once in an election.

Make sure the file you upload is a text file with a single code on each line with no header. For example, create a spreadsheet with a list of codes in one column and do not label the column. Save the file as a text (tab delimited) file.

To upload ballot codes, click **Choose File**, browse for the file and upload the file. Then complete the process by clicking **Load**.

To start over, click **Erase Codes & Votes** to reset the process.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/d6ce927e-20b2-40ab-af8d-ea0afbbc28f7/Images/Documentation/2015-10-06_10-13-41.png)

Once the codes have been uploaded, the banner shows the available ballot codes and the number of codes that have been used.

**Print Ballot Codes** opens a spreadsheet of the ballot codes with True or False if that ballot code has been used or not.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/d6ce927e-20b2-40ab-af8d-ea0afbbc28f7/Images/Documentation/2015-10-06_10-17-05.png)

## **Voting Kiosk Tab**

To begin the election, click **Open Kiosk** to begin voting. It's a good idea to close the browser window before voting so that only the voting kiosk appears on screen.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/d6ce927e-20b2-40ab-af8d-ea0afbbc28f7/Images/Documentation/screen_shot_2015-04-08_at_2(3).png)

Make sure to go to the **Election Details** tab to begin the voting process by using the start, stop, and pause buttons.

Multiple Kiosks can be opened as needed on multiple computers.

Make sure when voting, voters complete the entire ballot and click **Cast Ballot** to enter their vote.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/d6ce927e-20b2-40ab-af8d-ea0afbbc28f7/Images/Documentation/screen_shot_2015-04-08_at_3(1).png)

Results of the election can be found on the **Election Details** tab by clicking the **Print** button.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/d6ce927e-20b2-40ab-af8d-ea0afbbc28f7/Images/Documentation/screen_shot_2015-04-08_at_3(2).png)

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