HELP....Our club is having it's annual election and several members are not going to be in town that week. Can anyone provide information, tips, experiences, etc on how to use the Survey Maker to cast absentee votes. I am sure it can be done I am just drawing blanks and need CC & admin input. Thanks in advance.

A picture may be worth a thousand words. In the top portion of the attached photo is the question as it appears in the Survey Maker. The lower portion is how it appears in the survey as seen by classmates when participating. I would think this structure would work quite well for an election where there may be multiple candidates for each position.

There are 18 candidates for 10 spots. Good visual. Too bad I can't put photos in the survey.

You can include photos but only at the top of the survey not with individual questions.

I just discovered that which is OK on the top as those can see who is running. But, when using questions with checkboxes the system asks for an answer. Am I missing something?

I would think an answer would be one of the candidates running for the position that is in the question.

It seems to me that a survey is not able to do everything you need. If you create a question with 18 possible check boxes (and mark it as mandatory answer) at least one (or more) check box must be checked.
Same if you create 18 questions with a check box (or radio button or yes/no option). If you make each one as 'must be answered' then they have to be.

The problem I see is that you only want a total of 10 out of 18 check boxes marked, (or 10 Yes answers and 8 No answers). A survey isn't capable of enforcing that.

But by taking off the 'must be answered' option and reminding people that only 10 check boxes of the 18 available can be checked, you should get close to what you need - if they follow directions.

If I understand Bob correctly he has 10 positions (questions) and 18 candidates (answers) for those 10 positions. It would seem to me the survey will give him exactly what he's looking for. It is not necessary to mark any answer as mandatory. One always should be able to not vote for a candidate for a position. Having said that if you add "none of the above" as an answer (candidate) for each question (position)you could make a response mandatory.

Good Point, FC. Or maybe one question with 10 checkboxes, each with a fill-out option? They'd have to check the box and enter a name in each, but at least you'd have 10 choices. And if you only liked 9 of the candidates, that's all you'd have to fill in.
But that won't graphicly display the answers, and your suggestion or mine doesn't stop someone from entering the same name 10 times.

John & F C,
Thank you for your input. I was able to build a Table for the top of the Survey and add photos & names under each. The survey was quite simple. I put the Candidates name in the Question Box and chose Yes or No and added "Choose Yes or No" in the Hint Box.
Moving forward, I had to try it out and only chose 8 to see the results. I think this will fit my needs and I have Instructions to only choose a maximum of 10 or their vote will be null & void. I can count their names to verify they did this.
Only problem now is my results are in the survey. **Is their a way to clear my results without tearing down and starting over???

Just go in to the active survey and uncheck everything you chose.

Thanks F C,
I ended up doing it over (survey part) because I am using yes / no choices.

Is it possible someone could do this more than one time. As admin it appears I could do it twice.

Everyone can go in and modify their answers. I don't think there is a limit as to how many times. My experience has been that, even though it's possible, few individuals change their initial responses.

Thank You For all your help. This has been a GREAT Learn for me.

Robert Cullen wrote:

I really appreciate all the help on this. I have the Survey/Ballot on the home page and if anyone cares to view how it came out they may go to the site and press the Link "BOD Absentee Ballot" on the left.
I am very pleased.

Thanks to FC, John and Dick for helping Bob with his question. I've said it at least a hundred times... teamwork works! Admins coming together prove that!

Thanks Gwen!!!
By the way, do you know why the list of choices in the survey are not uniformly listed? Example (left justified)

Gwen, That's called "Paying it Forward". Those of us who've received needed advice and help are more than glad to return the favor when we've 'been-there-done-that' and can chip in to help.