Built for the way the church votes.
Synod is voting software made for church assemblies — District Conferences, sectional ballots, and business meetings — so the body can decide together in order, with dignity, and with results it can trust.
- Why Synod
A vote in the house of God is a sacred act.
When a district elects its officials, when a section seats its board, when a conference settles a question of business — the assembly is doing something weighty. The outcome is read into the minutes and carried by the body for years. It deserves to be conducted in order, recorded accurately, and trusted by everyone in the room.
Synod was built for exactly that setting. Not for a generic poll or a corporate survey, but for the governed elections a church assembly actually runs — under its bylaws, in its order of business, with the gravity those decisions carry.
- The old way
Paper ballots and generic tools were never made for this.
Folding paper ballots, passing baskets down the rows, and tallying by hand at a side table is slow, hard to keep private, and unsettling when a count is close. Generic form builders and quick-poll apps fix the speed, but they were never made for sacred votes — they have no concept of a roster, of who is seated and eligible, of a result certified into the record.
The result is a gap: the most important votes a church holds are often run on the least suitable tools. Synod closes that gap with software shaped around how the assembly truly works.
- Our commitment
Order, dignity, and a result that stands.
Order means the roster is the gate: only members matched against the imported roll and approved by an administrator are admitted to a ballot. Dignity means each voter casts privately from their own phone, the room follows each outcome together on the display, and no live running counts are shown while a ballot is open.
Trust means certified results never change. The moment a result is announced, its totals are frozen. If a voter is later removed, their ballot is anonymized rather than deleted — an outcome that has been read into the record is never altered after the fact. That commitment to election integrity is the heart of why Synod exists.
The principles behind every ballot.
These are not features on a list — they are the commitments that shape how Synod is built.
Election integrity first
Certified totals are frozen the moment a result is announced and are never altered afterward. Integrity is the default, not a setting.
The roster is the gate
Only voters matched against your roll and approved by an administrator are admitted to a ballot. Registration alone never grants a vote.
Dignity in the room
Private ballots from each voter’s own phone, a shared display that reveals outcomes together, and no running counts while voting is open.
Built for governed bodies
Sectional and district ballots, nominations, and motions that fit a conference run under its bylaws and order of business.
The Maryland/D.C. District ran its District Conference vote on Synod, conducting its sectional and district ballots through the platform from roll call to certified results.
the MD/DC District