Voting
Voting, or balloting, is accomplished in one of 2 ways. Paper Ballots or Mobile Ballots.
With Paper Ballots, you will need to have paper ballots created outside of the Middletwin system that contain a list of each car class and a space for your voters to write in the car number that they would like to vote for for that particular class. You will need to include instructions including the time that all completed ballots must be turned in by. Once voting is completed and you have collected all the ballots you can have one or more people with an administrator login (can be the same login) that has the “Ballot Manager” permission enabled. This will allow the users to access the Printed Ballots function.
Just have them follow the onscreen instructions to transfer the votes from the paper ballots into Middletwin.
Ballots can be easily entered by typing in the number for a class and hitting enter will bring the focus to the next class entry field. When done click the “Submit Ballot” button. Note that if you enter in a registration number that does not exists, the system will accept it without reporting any information about that. It is just ignored. The system is designed that way to allow for quick entry.
When done the person entering the ballots can click the “X” at the top or the “Back” button in the floating buttons to close the panel
Mobile Ballots
In addition to, or instead of Paper Ballots, you can use Mobile Ballots.
Mobile Ballots allows your voters to use their own mobile phone (smart phone capable of reading a QA Code) to fill out their ballot. Using this method negates the need to have to manually transfer the handwritten votes from a paper ballot into the Middletwin system because the votes go directly into the system from the voters themselves.
To do Mobile Ballots, go to the Mobile Ballots icon, click on the Setup tab, and follow the onscreen instructions.
This is very easy to do, and you may have some voters who are resistant to using their phones for voting, or votes without phones that are capable of this. For these rare occurrences it is a good idea to have a few printed ballots handy, just in case. Printed Ballots and Mobile Ballots can both be used for the same event. We recommend that you only distribute the Mobile Ballots if you are going to use this method, and keep the paper as a back up and only use it if necessary. Distributing both can allow double voting.
Results
To see the voting results, someone with “Event Manager” permissions can go to the Results icon, to view the results.
The top 10 registrations in each class will be displayed with the number of votes and the first column, registration name, registration information and registration number. The top three peoples choice selections will be at the bottom.
The results page is formatted for printing, so you can print it out and mark it up as needed.
