Kristiansand municipality has had an electric button vote until they started voting system in 2007, when all the case documents became electronic and the representatives got a PC and a new voting system. Kristiansand municipality was involved in the test project Braathe Gruppen when the Digital Poll service was to be tested and calibrated in 2007. Now they are over to the new and improved platform, which is constantly being renewed with new solutions and additional services.

- The latest version of Digital Polling has been a great improvement for us, says Anne Lise Aabø, who is chairmanship secretary in Kristiansand municipality.

Digital voting facilitates a user-friendly and tailor-made solution for political processes. The solution systematizes meetings, issues, speaking time and voting. Kristiansand municipality can easily follow the vote on various issues.

We have 71 representatives in the city council, so if we were to count all the votes manually and note who voted what, it would take a very long time. We see that Digital Polling has reduced the use of time.

Read about how Gjensidige Foundation has used digital voting to reduce meeting time.

Digital voting in practice
Prior to the city council meeting, the case documents are retrieved directly from the municipality's document system. During the meeting, the meeting administrator controls the flow of issues, suggestions, talk time and replies. After voting it is visible to the audience in the hall and on the web who has voted and what - and this without counting hands! In addition, after the meeting, it is possible to obtain a meeting report and view statistics of votes from the meeting.

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