Members vote with little to go on
Candidates get a short bio and motions arrive as an attachment. There is no shared place to ask questions, raise concerns, or suggest an amendment before the ballot opens.
Online voting for motions and elections
Hold binding votes your members can trust. Discuss openly first, vote by secret ballot, and keep every result with the reasoning behind it, for one annual price.
- Anonymous ballots, hidden results
- STV and ranked-choice elections
- Unlimited votes, one price per year
A ballot tool only handles the last step
Election and ballot services count votes well. But a formal vote starts weeks earlier, and its record matters for years afterwards.
You pay every time you vote
Per-election and per-meeting pricing turns every AGM, by-election, and motion into another invoice, and a reason to ask members less often.
The record ends up somewhere else
The result goes out by email and the debate stays in a call recording. Next year, nobody can find why the decision was made.
For us, this really is a legally binding vote. It goes into the trade registry. We needed assurance that this was a proper way of voting, tracking votes and tracking engagement.Matthias Zeitler, Semkovo Co-op
Discuss openly. Vote anonymously. Keep the record.
Loomio holds the whole vote in one place, so members arrive at the ballot informed and the outcome stays easy to find.
Discuss in the open
Share the motion or candidate statements in a thread. Members ask questions, raise concerns, and propose amendments under their own names, across time zones.
Vote by secret ballot
Anonymous voting separates who voted from how they voted. Results stay hidden from everyone, administrators included, until the vote closes.
Record the outcome
Close with a stated outcome. The motion, the discussion, and the result stay together, searchable when the question comes up again.
Every kind of formal vote
Use the method your constitution or bylaws describe, and make any vote anonymous.
Motions and resolutions
Agree, disagree, or abstain, with a participation quorum and the share of support your rules require to pass.
Board and committee elections
STV elections fill several seats in proportion to members' preferences, counted with Scottish or Meek STV and a Droop or Hare quota.
Officer and single-seat votes
Ask members to rank the candidates, or choose one or several from a list.
One vote per member organization
In a network or federation, make one delegate per member organization the voter, so a large member cannot outvote a small one.
Weighted votes
Give each member a vote weight when your rules count shares, units, or membership classes differently.
A fixed voting window
Schedule when voting opens and closes, for example to finish before your annual general meeting.
A result your members can trust
People join a vote when they believe their ballot is private and the count is fair.
A real secret ballot
Loomio stores the record of who took part separately from the votes. A submitted vote carries no name, account, reason, attachment, or precise time, and nobody can change it afterwards, including administrators. Read the technical details.
No early results
Results stay hidden from members, coordinators, and administrators until the vote closes, so nobody follows the early leader.
A count you can check
STV results show each round of transfers and eliminations. Ties are shown, not drawn at random, and ballots export in BLT format for an independent recount without voter identities.
Open source
The code that counts your votes is public, so anyone can inspect how it works. Loomio is built by a worker-owned cooperative.
One price for every vote this year
Election services charge per ballot. Loomio charges your whole organization once a year, whatever you vote on.
Per-election services
- Elections priced by number of voters, each time you hold one
- Meeting votes on motions priced separately, per meeting
- Discussion and the record kept somewhere else
For example, ElectionBuddy lists elections from US$29 to US$299+ and meeting votes from US$197 to US$797 per meeting (electionbuddy.com, checked October 2026).
Loomio
- Unlimited motions, elections, and discussions
- Nonprofit plans from US$299 a year
- Your votes, reasons, and outcomes in one record
Built for member organizations
Groups that answer to their members use Loomio for the votes their constitution requires.
- Cooperatives
- Unions
- Associations and clubs
- Nonprofit boards
- Homeowner and strata associations
- School and kindergarten associations
- Networks of member organizations
- Movements and political parties
Binding votes in practice
A property cooperative registering legally binding decisions, an open-source foundation electing advisory committees, and a political organization voting at scale.
Cohousing & communities
Running a property co-op without ever meeting in person
130 people from 32 countries bought apartments together. Now they have to run a business, a community, and a building — democratically.
Governance & boards
Governing the library that secures the Internet
When the whole internet depends on your library, you can't make decisions behind closed doors anymore.
Movements & campaigns
Making democracy work at campaign speed
Behind Zohran Mamdani's historic mayoral primary win was a decision-making system that coordinated 13,000 members with zero paid staff.
Questions about voting in Loomio
Can administrators see how someone voted?
Not in an anonymous vote. Loomio records who took part separately from the votes, and results stay hidden from everyone until the vote closes. How anonymous voting works.
Our bylaws require a secret ballot. Is Loomio suitable?
Turn on anonymous voting before the vote starts. Each eligible person can vote once, a submitted vote cannot be changed or withdrawn, and an anonymous vote cannot be reopened after it closes. Check the protections and their limits against your rules.
Do voters need to join our Loomio group?
Members of your group can vote, and, if your group allows guests, you can invite people by email to take part in that vote only.
How do you count an STV election?
Choose Scottish STV, the method used in Scottish local elections, or Meek STV, and a Droop or Hare quota. Results show who was elected, each round of the count, and any ties. Read the STV guide.
How do we make sure enough people vote?
Set a quorum, send reminders to people who have not voted, and schedule the vote to close before your meeting. Anonymous votes lasting a day or more send everyone who hasn't voted an automatic reminder in the final 24 hours.
Can we run our election on the free trial?
The free trial is for trying Loomio with your committee: 14 days, with up to 10 people. To hold a vote with all your members, choose a plan, or talk to us if you need more time.
We're working on cryptography and must be trusted. To be trusted, the only way, or one of the main ways, is to be open.Anton Arapov, OpenSSL