TEDME Voting functions
TEDME offers you extensive options for the successful organisation of votes and elections at your meetings.
Secret live voting and elections
Simply hold secret elections.
Whether on-site, hybrid or digital.
What does secret mean for TEDME? That the voting behaviour of individuals is not comprehensible to anyone. Neither for the participants nor in the analyses.
Open live voting and elections
Of course, there are also explicit not secret Voting possible. With direct display of the voting behaviour of the participants - even while the election is still running.
Online voting - the digital postal vote
For votes and elections over a longer period of time, you can link the integrated participant management of TEDME with the survey and voting forms.
Participant management
Import the list of participants and let TEDME send the invitation. Customise the email, assign voting rights or manage who has already been invited.
Substitute function
Define who can vote for whom. This allows a participant to vote for other participants - with their voting rights. Separately and comprehensibly, of course.
Election questions
Special election issues such as resolutions, personal elections or panache voting supplement the TEDME Standard voting questions.
Voting behaviour and majorities
Let TEDME display the result - immediately in conjunction with the required votes.
Spontaneous votes or points of order
Do spontaneous requests or questions make you sweat during your elections? With the spontaneous question function of TEDME you can react quickly and flexibly to the course of your event.
Meeting minutes and analyses
Receive your detailed meeting minutes for the entire event with just one click. Which participant logged in and when? How was each vote taken? Who was involved?
All data is stored permanently.
In secret ballots, of course, only results are stored. Voting behaviour is not traceable.
Clearly represented abstentions
You want to know how many abstentions there were? The answer is TEDME - directly in the diagrams of the results.
If you also have the percentage values calculated, the abstentions are of course not included in these values.
Deliberately refusing to testify
Some questions you deliberately don't want to answer. However, especially in survey forms that use sliders, confusion can quickly arise if the respondent does not enter an answer and the slider remains at the preset centre. We have recognised this and solved it. That's why your participants can now deliberately refuse to give an answer - even in the popular surveys with sliders.
Vote publicly
Everyone can know how to vote? Then show them. TEDME makes this possible - even with a dynamic LIVE display during the election. This allows voters to consciously orientate themselves to the voting behaviour of others.
Those who do not wish to do so can continue to use the secret ballots in TEDME.
Further functions
In addition to the special choice functions, you can also use the other TEDME functions such as chat, Q&A, as well as classic question types such as single choice, multiple choice, free text questions, sliders and many more.
Voting functions of TEDME in use
TEDME-Auth
Brief introduction
General Meeting
create & execute
Asynchronous elections
over a longer period of time
More inspiration for election functions
What was introduced due to the pandemic has proven to be a tried-and-tested measure over the past two years: The ability to hold virtual general and members' meetings.
The virtual Annual General Meeting is to be given a permanent, further developed regulation in the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG) and virtual general meetings should also continue to be possible for associations.
Virtual general meetings for associations
Just like public limited companies, associations should also be able to hold their general meetings as video conferences in future. The the Federal Council proposes in which Draft law from 1 July 2022 before.
By amending Section 32 of the German Civil Code (BGB), it should be possible in principle to hold meetings as video conferences and not be dependent on a provision in the articles of association. "Since digital discussions and meetings have proven their worth during the coronavirus pandemic, the holding of a meeting in which association members can participate by means of video conferencing technology should in future be at the dutiful discretion of the board of directors. This no longer requires a provision in the articles of association or the consent of the members," explains the Federal Council.
Virtual general meetings for stock corporations
Section 1 (2) of the Act on Measures in Corporate, Cooperative, Association, Foundation and Residential Property Law to Combat the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic (GesRua-COVBekG) gave stock corporations and related legal forms the opportunity to hold their Annual General Meetings as exclusively virtual Annual General Meetings for the first time. This GesRuaCOVBekG will expire at the end of 31 August 2022.
The format of the virtual Annual General Meeting was well received in practice and has generally proved its worth:
- Attendance at the meetings increased
- The possibility of shifting the right to ask questions to the run-up to the meeting contributed to an increase in the quality of the answers to shareholders' questions.
However, the law does not allow shareholders to exercise their rights to the same extent as is possible in the context of physical or hybrid meetings.
In light of this experience, the virtual Annual General Meeting is to be given a permanent, further developed regulation in the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG). However, it is now also intended to organise the exercise of rights by shareholders in a similar way to the right to attend a meeting in person.
It states that the articles of association may provide for the meeting to be held without the physical presence of shareholders. The following requirements must be met:
- Transmission with image and sound
- Exercise of voting rights via electronic participation, electronic postal vote or authorisation
- Shareholders connected digitally are granted the right to submit motions and election proposals at the meeting via video communication
- Shareholders are granted a right to information via electronic communication,
- The content must be made available to them 7 days before the meeting,
- Shareholders must be able to submit a statement electronically,
- they must be given the right to speak (!) in the video communication
- and a right of objection by electronic means.
Conclusion
Virtual general and members' meetings are here to stay. Following the positive experiences of the last two years of the pandemic, the advancement of digitalisation and the possibility of making meetings more flexible and sustainable at the same time, the legislator has now also decided on a permanent solution for virtual meetings.
Many organisers want a digital tool for their polls and elections or their self-service voting at interactive events. This is because it can be set up and managed cost-effectively by the organisers themselves. TEDME, the German classic for all voting, elections and polls, now offers attractive self-service packages. This allows you to organise your events, elections, polls, seminars and much more in a way that is both very affordable and GDPR-compliant.
"The new TEDME package is unbeatably favourable for our association. We would have had to pay more just for the postage on the invitations."
Discover the attractive licences in self-service
Various attractive packages and licences are available to you.
Examples:
- BASIC" permanent licence for only €9/month
- Authenticated TEDME event for elections and voting with 50 participants for just €99 one-off
- Event with all TEDME functions and 1,000 participants for just €199 one-off
Whether you organise regular events or are planning a single large event - we have the right licence for you.
Manage authenticated elections and votes yourself
Simple and fast: Set up your online dialling quickly and easily. The cost-effective self-service from just 99 euros for a maximum of 50 participants can do everything you know from TEDME-Auth.
Focus on legal certainty: Carry out your votes in accordance with the articles of association and legal requirements. Our system is hosted on German servers and is GDPR-compliant.
Suitable for every occasion: Whether physical presence, hybrid or virtual meetings - TEDME-Auth adapts to your requirements.
Your brand is instantly recognisable: Customise the layout of digital votes and elections in your corporate design.
Transparency and documentation: Receive detailed meeting minutes for efficient audits.
Spontaneity and flexibility: With TEDME-Auth you can both vote and ask spontaneous questions during the session.
Transfers and majorities: Allow transfers of voting rights and display different majority types.
Variety of options: Offer alternative proposals to the given voting options and choose between authenticated or secret sessions.
Additional co-moderation board: Support your election officer with real-time information about the ongoing vote and the results.
This is already included in the self-service for authenticated elections
- up to 1000 authenticated participants
- all interaction modules such as Q&A
- parallel sessions
- Voting and election mode
- spontaneous voting
- Participant management for participants with voting rights
- Invitation module for sending invitations to participants
- Detailed documentation and export of the event
- Integration of your livestream, Zoom and WebEx meetings
- and much more
Extensive tutorials are available for self-service.
Interactive events in self-service
Do you want to manage your interactive events yourself? With TEDME, it's child's play and super quick to implement.
You can organise a single event with up to 30 people completely free of charge. If you are expecting more participants, the "Small Event" package is probably just right for you. This is already included in the incredibly favourable package for 199 euros:
- up to 1,000 participants
- all interaction modules: Voting, Q&A, surveys, knowledge games, chat, co-moderation, webinar function and more
- parallel sessions
- Session duration of any length
- Maximum individualisation
- Numerous tutorials
Control all tunings yourself and implement them cost-effectively
Do you want to use TEDME in your company for your internal seminars, for working groups, more interactive presentations by your experts, for internal surveys, customer feedback and much more? The low-cost and fast self-service makes it possible.
Simply try out the free version for up to 30 participants - including voting, basic question types, questionnaires, Q&A rounds, chat and the popular knowledge games. Do you want to involve more participants, be able to hold parallel sessions and have your chat and Q&A session moderated? Then the unbeatably favourable BASIC version is just right for you. For just 9 euros (net) per month, you get these popular and reliable functions.
Conclusion
The inexpensive and fast self-service for voting, surveys, elections and polls of all kinds is particularly worthwhile if you want to operate such a digital solution yourself or if you can rely on someone internally to operate the voting tool for you. Do you have any questions? Then contact us right away - we look forward to your call or e-mail.
*All prices are net and do not include statutory VAT.
What customers really want - we have listened carefully to our customers and are delighted to present our latest extension: The new TEDME app - now seamlessly integrated into Microsoft Teams. This is now also available to you.
Knowing that many of our valued TEDME Enterprise customers conduct many of their meetings with Microsoft Teams, we have been working hard on the app.
For you, this means that you can now do everything in a single application: Voting, elections, feedback, knowledge games or Q&A - directly in your familiar Microsoft Teams environment. This means no interruptions, no extra steps - simply everything you need in one place.
But enough words - experience it for yourself. Take a look at the short video and see for yourself.
Everything in a single application: TEAMS in TEDME
This is how it works
For your participants
Your meeting participant opens their TEAMS meeting and enters the TEDME room number. He sees the presentation, the other participants and also integrates the TEDME questions. No separate link, no two windows - everything at a glance.
For your moderator
- Add and save appointment in the calendar
- Add the TEDME app to the TEAMS meeting.
- Open and use the TEDME backend as usual.
The perfect integration for:
- Everyone who already uses TEAMS in their organisation
- Your online events
- the transmission of streaming, screen sharing and files in combination with interaction questions in TEDME
Voting, Q&A, surveys, gamification
All the usual TEDME functions for participants are now also available in the TEDME app for Microsoft Teams.
Voting
Your moderator triggers the voting conveniently outside MS Teams and your participants answer the questions and votes directly in MS Teams.
Survey forms
Feedback and survey forms are also embedded directly in Teams so that your participants can complete them conveniently.
Gamification
A TEDME knowledge game or TEDME knowledge tournament will liven up any team meeting. Try it out - you and your participants will be delighted.
Q&A Session
The participants' questions are also embedded in MS Teams and the answers are displayed directly there.
How to get TEDME in TEAMS
Take a look at our Tutorial or our Installation instructions to it. With just a few clicks, you have added TEDME to a TEAMS meeting. You're ready to go.
The small print
Your participants need a Microsoft account.
The free version of Teams does not support apps - i.e. not even TEDME.
Do you want to make sure that everyone can take part in the votes and interactions? Then share the classic TEDME link with your participants to be on the safe side. This way, they can take part in all your votes even without a Microsoft account.
