Ranked-choice voting platform

End runoff elections for good.

Votely settles any election in a single ranked ballot — no separate runoff. From a one-question vote to a multi-seat board, with optional voter categories so every member sees exactly the right ballot.

No runoffs, ever IRV + STV Auditable & transparent
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President-Elect

Instant runoff
Final round · majority reached, no separate runoff
✓ Dr. Maria Alvarez58%
Dr. James Okafor42%
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runoff elections needed
Winner decided in one ballot, the same day.
Attending sees 4 contests
Ballot verified & counted
For any organization that runs elections Professional societies Unions Universities & student gov Nonprofits & boards HOAs & co-ops Clubs & faith groups Political orgs
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Runoff elections — winners in one ballot
Any
Election type — one seat or many
100%
Auditable, exportable results
Voter categories — as many as you need
How it works

One ranked ballot. No second election.

Voters rank candidates in order of preference. Votely runs the runoff instantly, inside the count — so a true majority winner emerges the same day.

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Members rank their choices

Drag or tap to order candidates — as many or as few as they like. Each category only sees the contests they're eligible for.

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Votely counts instantly

If no one has a majority, the last-place candidate is dropped and those ballots move to their next choice — round by round (IRV). Multi-seat races use single transferable vote.

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A clear winner, same day

You get a transparent, round-by-round result and an exportable audit trail. No scheduling, mailing, or waiting on a second runoff.

Features

Everything a real election needs

The polish of a consumer app with the rigor any serious election requires.

Category-based eligibility

The feature no one else has: define unlimited voter categories — chapters, classes, membership tiers, regions — and each voter automatically gets exactly the right ballot.

IRV & STV built in

Instant-runoff for single seats, single transferable vote with Droop quota for multi-seat races — a verified, tested engine.

Verified voters

One person, one vote — enforced with magic links, OTP, or SSO. No forwardable ballots, no double-voting.

Secret ballot

Voter identity is separated from the cast ballot and encrypted, so choices stay private.

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Live, transparent results

Watch the count round by round, see turnout by category, and export a full, permanent record.

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Tamper-evident audit trail

A timestamped log an independent observer can verify — results you can defend if challenged.

The differentiator

Voting that knows who can vote for what

Most tools treat your electorate as one undifferentiated list. Votely makes voter categories a first-class feature — define as many as you need, and each one automatically gets the right ballot. (Don't need categories? Run a simple single-electorate vote just as easily.)

Unlimited, fully configurable categories — chapters, classes, membership grades, regions, committees, even weighted shareholder classes.

Live demo

Try it yourself — right here

Vote as an attending, resident, or student and watch the ballot change. Then open the organizer view to see the live, round-by-round count. Sample data from a TCEP-style election.

Security & trust

Strong, auditable, and honest about it

The credible standard for online elections — and we say plainly what we can and can't promise.

Authenticated voters

One person, one vote — enforced via magic link, OTP, or SSO.

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Secret ballot

Identity is separated from the ballot and encrypted.

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Auditable count

Tamper-evident, timestamped, independently verifiable.

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Transparent results

Round-by-round detail, exportable and permanent.

Honest framing: no internet voting is provably unhackable (per the U.S. National Academies). Votely promises strong, encrypted, auditable, and transparent — never “unhackable.”
Pricing

Transparent, per-election pricing

The opposite of the opaque subscriptions buyers complain about. Illustrative tiers below.

Free
$0
Clubs, classes & trial elections.
  • ✓ Single-winner ranked choice (IRV)
  • ✓ Up to 50 voters per election
  • ✓ Unlimited basic elections
More free than OpaVote (25) & ElectionBuddy (<20)
Most popular
Per-election Pro
Per election
Clubs, HOAs, and chapters — pay only when you vote.
  • ✓ Everything in Free
  • ✓ Verified voters (OTP / SSO)
  • ✓ Audit log & exports
No year-round subscription
Organization
Annual
Societies, unions, and universities.
  • ✓ Everything in Pro
  • ✓ Category-based eligibility
  • ✓ Branding, SSO & priority support
Our differentiated tier

Ready to retire runoff elections?

See Votely run a category-based election end to end — and how it would work for your members.