Simply Voting is the campus web-based online voting system supporting the official online voting needs on campus. For alternatives for other types of voting or surveying, please see Qualtrics Online Surveys, Microsoft Forms, and WCMS Web forms.
How to request an account
Returning Officers (RO) need to request a Simply Voting account for their vote via the IST Jira Help portal.
Types of accounts
There are two types of accounts that could be requested by the RO. (will they need a new account for each vote? or will they access the account they already have and create a new usergroup for the new vote?)
Returning Officers
The Returning Officers account will have access to create/manage votes. They will be set up as a user in Simply Voting and are assigned to a usergroup(s) and assigned full access. so the RO assigns themselves to their own vote/usergroup? Is this specified in the form they complete to request their SV account?
Results access
The Results access account gives a user permission to view results for a specific vote.
Simply Voting usergroups
Usergroups allow control over which users can access which elections.
A user can be assigned to one or more usergroups for creating/managing elections in that usergroup (or viewing results)
When a Returning Officer creates an election, they will need to assign the election to a usergroup. Users/participants are added to a usergroup so that only members of that assigned usergroup will be able to access that election.
We recommend creating usergroups for vote types with the same Returning Officers rather than departments!
Logging into Simply Voting
To create/manage votes:
Users log in to Simply Voting using their UWaterloo credentials (ie. 8-character UWaterloo username and password) and two-factor authentication (2Fa) at https://uwaterloo.simplyvoting.com/manage
To vote:
Voters will navigate to http://uwaterloo.simplyvoting.com and log in with their UWaterloo credentials, (ie. 8-character UWaterloo username and password) and two-factor authentication (2Fa) at https://uwaterloo.simplyvoting.com/manage
Once logged in, the voter will see the current ballots that they have access to and can vote in. (can we change ballots to election?)
How to request the removal of an account
Returning Officers should request the removal of accounts (RO accounts and Results access accounts) that should no longer have access to votes/results via the IST Jira Help portal.
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