AssociationVoting vs Belenios

AssociationVoting is an online voting platform for member associations and organizations. It handles board elections, bylaw votes, member approvals, polls, referendums, nominations and proxy voting. Ballots can include candidates, propositions, slate approval, write-ins, or items tailored to districts and other groups. Voting options include First Past the Post and weighted score elections; secret ballots allow anonymous voting, with reports that omit voter identification. Election managers can see ballot counts, ongoing ballots, quorum reports, real-time tallies and an audit summary. Results remain accessible for 30 days after an election, while certified results and audit history are kept for one year from certification. It runs on web, Android and iOS. Single-election pricing is free for 1–25 eligible voters, $99, paid once for 26–125, $199, paid once for 126–500, and $299, paid once for 501–5,000. A free demo is available without a credit card.

Belenios is a free, verifiable online voting system for elections and referendums, including scientific councils and sports associations. Its hosted web platform supports standard candidate selection and preferential elections using Condorcet, Single Transferable Vote, and Majority Judgment. Weighted votes are available for standard elections. Votes are encrypted to protect individual choices, subject to the election’s decryption-key setup. Voters can check that ballots appear in a public ballot box, and anyone can verify that the result matches those ballots. Authentication options include public accounts, Google login, and CAS. The hosted service supports up to 2,500 voters per election; larger elections are directed toward institutional hosting. Belenios is also self-hostable free software under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3. Voters and email addresses cannot be changed after an election starts, and trustee key loss prevents tallying. The hosted plan is free.