Conventions

Speaking queue

How does your convention track who is waiting to speak during a session? This website can track that and let everyone know where they are in the queue.

This website supports a multi-tiered queue of those waiting to speak.

1. Attendees who are waiting to deliver normal debate are handled first-come-first-served.
2. Attendees can instead enqueue to deliver a response (or piggyback, or whatever you want to call it; the name is configurable), which puts them at a higher priority level that is handled before normal debate. These responses are handled first-come-first-served. This level can be disabled.
3. Attendees who want to make an actual motion get even higher priority, and the various kinds of motions have different precedence relative to each other.

These priority levels only affect queue positon, with the Chair having discretion to choose which item he takes from the queue at any time.

Electronic voting

Attendees can vote on motions electronically, with Yes, No, and Present options.

Elections and blank-fillings

Attendees can also vote electronically for elections and for filling blanks.

There are many more voting methods than you might be familiar with. Most organizations use plurality or exhaustive ballot for electing officers and directors. Plurality (also known as first-past-the-post) is an all-around poor voting method that should honestly never be used, and exhaustive ballot can take a lot of time or deadlock. With the electronic voting tools provided by RONRator, you are empowered to explore fairer and more efficient methods to choose one or more candidates in only one round of voting.

The electronic voting methods supported by RONRator are:

• Plurality (a.k.a. first-past-the-post)
• Exhaustive ballot
  • Robert's Rules version
  • with elimination (reduces liklihood of stalemate)
• Instant runoff
  • with Borda count breaking ties for last place
• Condorcet
  • Schulze with ties broken randomly
• Borda count
  • without tiebreaker
  • with ties broken randomly
• Approval
• Score (a.k.a. range)

If there's a different voting method or variant that you want to use, please contact us and we'll be happy to add it.

Assisted minute-taking

This website makes taking meeting minutes a breeze by automatically capturing the activity within the meeting and letting you fill in information as desired. Then, it automatically converts your minutes to PDF after the meeting, and safely stores the PDF for you. It can even use a custom template that you provide or that we create just for you.

Follow Robert's Rules better

Attendees will know what kinds of motions they can make at any moment, making your meetings more efficent. There will never be any confusion about what question is currently pending or what just happened.