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How it works

How a Synod vote runs, end to end.

Follow a single District Conference vote from the moment you import your roster to the moment certified totals land in your minutes. Six ordered stages, each conducted in order and recorded with confidence.

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The full lifecycle

Six stages, from roster to record.

Each stage hands to the next in order — so a conference moves from a seated roster to certified totals without a step out of place.

  1. Import your roster

    Start by bringing in your roster — the seated, eligible voters for this District Conference. Synod reads your list once, so every later stage can be measured against a single, authoritative record of who belongs in the room.

    A delegate roster imported into Synod, with seated, eligible voters listed for the conference.
  2. Roll call and approval

    As voters register from their phones, Synod matches each one against your imported roster and holds them for an administrator to approve. Registration alone never grants a vote — roster matching plus your manual approval is the gate that admits only seated members to a ballot.

    A registered voter approved against the roster, holding their own phone to take part.
  3. Sectional and district ballots

    Open sectional ballots and district-wide elections side by side, each scoped to the right body of voters. Sections cast privately from their own phones — no shared devices to pass around — while a district race opens to the full conference, exactly as your order of business calls for.

  4. The live room display

    A shared display at the front of the room follows the same vote in real time, on its own device — a projector, screen, or laptop separate from every voter’s phone. While a ballot is open it shows no live running counts; when a result lands, the room sees the winner revealed first, together.

    A district conference room with a shared display at the front following the vote.
    No live counts while voting is open
  5. Synod certified-result seal.

    Certified results

    When a result is certified, its totals are frozen the moment they are announced and never change afterward. If a voter is later removed, their ballot is anonymized rather than counted out — so an announced outcome always stands, and the minutes can rest on it.

  6. Export for your minutes

    Carry every certified result out of Synod and into your records. Export the outcomes for your minutes and order of business, so the conference closes with a clean, recorded account of every ballot it ran.

Running the vote

Questions chairs ask on the day.

Run your next conference vote from roster to record.

Set up your first venue in minutes — no early-access wait.