SnapBallot vs VoteAlly

SnapBallot is a self-service online voting platform for member organizations. Administrators can create ballots, invite voters, track participation, and view results for board elections, bylaw amendments, contract ratifications, special votes, referendums, and run-offs. Vote weighting can reflect ownership, membership class, proxy assignments, or other organizational rules. Administrators can set minimum and maximum voting requirements for ballot items. Ballots are anonymous in a specific sense: administrators can see who voted, but not individual selections. Reports include daily participation, voter logs, and email recaps. Each election includes one invitation email and two reminders; more reminders cost extra. The maker describes end-to-end encryption, single-use magic-link authentication, and audit trails, and says the platform runs on Microsoft Azure. It works on Android, iOS, and the web. The free election plan covers up to 15 voters; paid elections start at $49 for 16–250 voters. Voters who need paper ballots or lack email must be handled separately, with their results combined afterward.

VoteAlly provides online voting for HOAs, condo associations, nonprofits, boards, unions, co-ops and other membership organizations. Administrators can run a Live Meeting session by opening and closing questions individually, or schedule questions to open at a configured time. Voters receive personalized passwordless email links and can vote from a phone, tablet or computer without an app or account. Ballots include weighted voting, motion pass rules, multi-candidate and cumulative elections, randomized candidate order, and candidate profiles with photos and bios. Administrators can export participation records, final tallies and anonymous ballots, and search an administrative action log. VoteAlly says data is encrypted in transit with TLS 1.3 and at rest with AES-256, with ballot choices additionally encrypted at the application layer. It describes its hosting as SOC 2 Type II compliant infrastructure with DDoS mitigation and web application firewalls. Available on Android, iOS and the web, VoteAlly has a forever-free plan limited to 50 eligible voters per session, two active sessions and one admin seat. Pro Association costs $220 a year and permits 120 voters per session, five active sessions and two admin seats.