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A merger is a crucial step in the evolution of any company. It requires thoughtful decision-making and consensus.

“If you want people involved, you have to involve people.” Someone we were talking to made that statement.

The American elections are coming. It is the 60th presidential election in the United States and will take place on November 5, 2024. Who will win? 8 years ago, when Trump won, the polls and indicators were completely wrong.

Guarantee Fund for Social Housing (WSW) supports its participants in carrying out their core activity: building and managing social housing.
WSW is the guarantee fund for social housing in the Netherlands.

In education, the Joint Participation Council plays an important role in guaranteeing participation in school policy. The Joint Participation Council in the Netherlands consists of representatives of staff, parents and students.

Zelfstandige Klinieken Nederland (ZKN) is the trade association of independent clinics in the Netherlands. Clinics provide approximately 16% of specialist medical care in the Netherlands.

The HagaZiekenhuis offers top clinical care to residents of The Hague (Netherlands) and surrounding areas, a catchment area of ​​more than 300,000 residents. The HagaZiekenhuis has been using the Online Voting Tool since 2022 to allow various voting procedures, such as the general membership meeting, to take place digitally.

As an organizer of a vote, you have real-time insight into the voting results online in 1 overview. You will receive a personal login with which you can view all voting results in a secure environment.

This can be done via a smartphone, tablet, laptop and PC. This way you always have enough choice in which way you can cast your vote.

Do you want to easily put questions to the digital vote for, for example, a General Members' Meeting, Works Council, Participation Council or vote for the collective labor agreement? This has never been easier than with the user-friendly technology of Online Voting Tool. You can add the questions and answers yourself or let us do it for you.

The general meeting of members is the general meeting of an association. All members of the association concerned are welcome and have the right to vote.

Part of our team attended the Olympic Games in Paris this summer. That was beautiful. And from next Wednesday the sports summer will continue with the Paralympics!
At the end of June, Dutch top athlete Joël de Jong gave our team at Vote Company/Online Voting Tool tips & tricks during a long jumping clinic.

Buying a second home as a holiday home abroad, to rent out or to use during your retirement. You often have to deal with a General Members Meeting, but how do you organize a AGM remotely, in which language and how do you cast your vote when you cannot be present at the location?
In that case, Online Voting Tool is the ideal tool to easily organize an online election or vote.

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Vote Company, we wrote a book with inspiration for organizers of (Dutch-language) elections. The title was "Your life has only begun when you have won an Award".

Online Voting Tool is rated at an average of 9.2 by organizers of online voting rounds. A figure we are proud of. We also asked the organizers of Online Voting Rounds why they specifically use the Online Voting Tool.

More and more organizations are making the switch from a physical meeting to a hybrid meeting. Those entitled to vote have the option to come to the location of the meeting.

The summer holidays have started in the Netherlands and many people are now enjoying their holidays with their family or friends! In addition, many people without school-age children plan holidays outside the school holidays. For example, it may happen that in the coming months there will no longer be a single date available on which everyone is physically together at work.

The works council is the place where the employer develops and discusses plans with staff representatives to improve the ins and outs of the organization (business operations).
The National Police in the Netherlands has eleven units.

Public libraries make our society richer. The Association of Public Libraries (VOB) facilitates its members in this.

As a member of the College of Broadcasters (CvO), you represent and speak on behalf of all broadcasters and are committed to strengthening the entire sector. The members of the council are active within their broadcaster and reflect the sector, from small to large broadcasters.

With Vote Company we have the mission to offer a platform to luminaries. We do this every day by facilitating public elections.

The association AFC Ajax has chosen Online Voting Tool to have the voting procedure of the General Assembly take place digitally. More and more organizations hold their ALV as a hybrid meeting.

Last weekend, the Online Voting Tool was used for a European Championship prediction with a few additional questions. This happened at an Award Presentation during the European Football Championship in the Netherlands.

The Dutch Association of Mediation and Employment Agencies (NBBU) uses the Online Voting Tool and simply puts the questions to the vote during the AGM itself.
Because not every vote counts equally, those entitled to vote received a weighted voting code.

Sometimes you want to conduct a survey but be sure that only certain people complete it and do not forward the link. Or that people complete a survey multiple times.

Our colleague took an 8-day ATB tour from Lisbon to Santiago de Compostella. It was a beautiful adventure. We asked if he had any lessons to learn.

Online voting for the collective labor agreement offers several benefits for both employees and employers. NS Europe and Holland Food Service use the Online Voting Tool in the Netherlands to vote on their submitted collective labor agreements online with their employees.

Zuidenwind is a cooperative of citizens who want to bring a sustainable society closer. The cooperative was founded in 2011, has approximately 700 members and mainly works in the South of the Netherlands.

People with school-age children know it; it is currently the May holiday. And there's much more to come. Soon it will be Ascension Day and shortly afterwards Pentecost again.

Online Voting Tool is part of Vote Company. When we existed for 10 years, we didn't just write a book.

What started in 1924 with 3 doctors has grown in the anniversary year into a collective of more than 130,000 healthcare professionals in the Netherlands. The VvAA is their voice in the social and political debate.

Nimbus is an investor. As investors, they know that active shareholder involvement can make the difference. Nimbus uses the Online Voting Tool to give voters the opportunity to easily make their vote known online, anonymously and from anywhere in the world.

The MBO Exam Cooperative was founded in the Netherlands in 2020 to develop generic digital arithmetic exams based on the new arithmetic requirements. All vocational institutions together are the founder and owner of the cooperative.

The DB Keuken Group has several branches in the Netherlands that are 100% part of DB Keukens. DB Keukens uses the Online Voting Tool for the elections of the works council.

This morning it was in the news; It is expected that by 2050 all cars in the Netherlands will be electric. So that's 26 years from now. It is currently 5% and growth is expected to level off in the near future.

During a special General Members Meeting of the Dutch trade association for beauticians (ANBOS), it was again possible for all members who were physically and digitally present to vote digitally with Online Voting Tool.
Of course, you can also let people who participate in a physical meeting vote digitally.

In the previous update we mentioned that "our" Dutch Paralympic athlete Joël de Jong had been nominated for the title of Parasportman of the Year. Yet another link with a great election. He won and received this Award during the NOC*NSF Sports Gala! Naturally, we will continue to support Joël with Online Voting Tool and Vote Company towards the Paralympic Games in Paris.

The works council stands up for the interests of the personnel in a company or organisation. The Works Council is allowed to contribute ideas on business economic and social issues.

Anonymous, simple, safe and climate-neutral digital voting for decision-making, voting rounds, elections, member consultations, polls and surveys. Only those entitled to vote can cast a vote, guaranteed! With more than 12.

Online Voting Tool is part of Vote Company. With Vote Company B.V. In addition to the closed voting rounds with Online Voting Tool, we also organize Public Elections.

The European Language Label is a European prize to encourage innovative language projects. The prize rewards creative and original initiatives to promote language education and language development in foreign languages.

For the BIG Improvement Day, Wilfred Romijn, one of the founders of Online Voting Tool (part of Vote Company), was interviewed; “During corona, technology for closed voting rounds was added. Online Voting Tool is ideal for membership organizations.

Just turn on the television and you will be reminded of it. According to the Electoral Act, this is not allowed digitally.

Sports associations must also hold an annual AGM at which votes also take place. For example, new decisions, budgets and new board members must be voted on.

Online Voting Tool's CO2 emissions are already limited/nil, for example by working with a (renowned) sustainable server provider. Yet we fully compensate for our emissions through our recently extended partnership with Trees for All.

The AFC Ajax association in the Netherlands has chosen Online Voting Tool to allow the voting procedure of the General Members' Meeting and the Extraordinary General Members' Meeting of the association to take place digitally. In this way, since 2021, all voters can cast their vote easily and anonymously.

Nucleuszorg, an organization in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen that supports general practitioners in certain healthcare sectors, once again used the Online Voting Tool for the General Assembly of Members last week. In addition, they voted live in the customer account during the online meeting, which works very easily.

Now that many people have just returned from vacation, we hear it a lot around us; "It was so good in Croatia/Greece/Portugal/you fill it in, and life is also more affordable there. I think I'm going to investigate whether I can't sit there for part of the year".

Do decisions still need to be made before the summer holidays really get going? Or is there something that must be voted on by those entitled to vote during the summer holidays? But then via mobile because not everyone has a laptop with them? You can do this via Online Voting Tool ..

Do decisions have to be made before the summer holidays really start? This can be done in a simple hybrid way or completely online via the Online Voting Tool. More and more organizations are holding hybrid meetings that also include voting.

At Online Voting Tool it is still very busy due to digital voting rounds for decisions that have to be taken before the summer.

With the Online Voting Tool, GroenLinks members can vote digitally in a simple and secure manner, increasing member involvement and making decision-making smoother. Online Voting Tool allows members to vote from anywhere, making participation in decision-making more accessible as well.

Digital voting is now doubly sustainable compared to getting together to vote. Because there is no longer any need to travel for kilometers and the Co2 emissions for the servers are minimized, but also compensated through our partner Trees for All.

At BrightPensioen you are involved in important decisions that affect your pension. BrightPensioen uses the Online Voting Tool during the online voting of the general meeting.

Nucleuszorg is a supporting primary care organization of and for general practitioners in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. Nucleuszorg aims to provide good and accessible general practitioner care together with doctors and employees; outside office hours via Nucleus GP posts and during office hours with independently established GP practices spread throughout the region.

Ecopower.be has opted for Online Voting Tool to have a hybrid voting procedure for the General Assembly. Ecopower.be unites more than 67,000 citizens who together produce green, Belgian energy.

Online Voting Tool is also the ideal tool to organize an online election or vote internationally for, for example, the General Assembly of Members. Before voting starts, all persons entitled to vote will receive a unique voting code by e-mail with which they can cast their vote digitally and completely anonymously in the language of your choice.

Online Voting Tool works simply and is safe and reliable. Watch the video that explains every step for the organizer of an online voting round.

Mikz kindergarten has chosen Online Voting Tool to vote online for the 5 available places in the works council. All 342 persons entitled to vote received a unique and personal voting code by e-mail.

The weather is beautiful today. But the "r" is in the month and you hear it all around you; "I have the flu and it is really tough. I still have corona again, so I stay home".

Entrepreneurs in greenhouse horticulture grow vegetables, flowers, plants and soft fruit under glass in a responsible manner to promote a healthy society.
The tomato crop cooperative was founded in 2015 and aims to conduct research to solve bottlenecks in tomato cultivation.

Do you want to put questions to the vote digitally for, for example, a General Members' Meeting or VVE? This has never been easier than with the user-friendly technology of Online Voting Tool. You can add the questions and answers yourself or let us do it for you.

More and more organizations are holding hybrid meetings where voting is also possible. Those entitled to vote have the opportunity to come to the location of the meeting.

We start the new year with good news. Vote Company and OnlineStemtool are partners of Trees for All. In this way we contribute to the compensation of CO2 emissions around elections and voting rounds.

This networking event was organized last month for all entrepreneurs in the municipality of Raalte (the Netherlands) and all civil servants who work for the municipality of Raalte and come into contact with entrepreneurs. The election for Enterprise and Freelancer of the Year also took place during the event.

FSV De Feijenoorder is the largest independent supporters association in the Netherlands. The Feijenoorder connects Feyenoord supporters with each other and with the club.

Almost daily you can now hear around you that there are people who have corona or the flu. Fortunately, those people can vote digitally with OnlineVotingtool.

Telindus, part of the Proximus Group, is the strategic IT partner for the flexible organization of the future. Telindus used OnlineVotingtool.com for the Works Council election
We not only realized the voting website for Telindus, but also sent the invitations to the voters.

The Edese Golfclub Papendal has chosen OnlineVotingTool.com to organize digital elections for the Special General Members' Meeting.

The Almende College has chosen OnlineVotingTool.com to organize digital elections for the Participation Council.

1 of the 1st customers of Online Voting Tool was a collective around solar panels. At Online Voting Tool we work a lot at home, we travel a lot by train, our team outing this summer was supping in the beautiful nature near Loosdrecht.

OnlineVotingtool.com is experiencing good growth. More and more organizations are using it to organize affordable digital voting rounds. That is why the team has expanded to include Archie.

Many decisions often have to be made when companies, institutions, associations, partnerships, boards, etc. merge. OnlineVotingTool.com is therefore regularly used for decision-making processes and online voting regarding mergers.

Working from home and therefore also making digital decisions will remain the norm for the time being. As always, we are therefore ready for you during this period if you want to have a digital vote via www.

We start the new year with a good message. Vote Company and Online Voting Tool are partners of Trees for All.

From January 1, 2022, OnlineStemtool.nl (part of Vote Company) will be located in Hilversum.
This location fits in even better with our team and the locations where our clients are located.

The demand for online voting rounds for member organizations remains unabated. In September and October it was increasingly hybrid; so some of the people come to a meeting, some vote from home or another location.

The Corona Emergency Act, which entered into force with retroactive effect on March 16, 2020, now runs until February 1, 2022 (now called the Corona Act).
You can choose to hold a meeting electronically until February 1, 2022.

In the meantime, during many general members' meetings that took place online, digital voting has been done via www.onlinevotingtool.com
The biggest compliment is that organizations that use it return.

We now have a great offer for you. Do you want to organize an online meeting? If you purchase OnlineStemtool in September, you will receive all additional questions for free.
So do you want to have a digital vote for your VVE? Or organize an Online Meeting? Then use www.

Despite the great appreciation for the full-service service around OnlineStemtool, we will soon also be introducing subscriptions whereby organizations can manage their online voting round themselves. More on that later. But of course the full-service service, as you have experienced it by now, is also possible.

This summer we worked hard to further develop OnlineStemtool.nl. Some updates are immediately visible. For example, the real-time dashboard has become even more user-friendly.

This summer we welcomed the new team members Rudi and Daan to meet the increasing demand for online star rounds.
The training period is over and they are now fully active!.

Digital voting rounds were first seen by Corona as a necessary solution. Many of our customers, including, for example, have experienced that it is often the best solution.

Many of our customers also appear to need support in organizing and running a digital meeting. That is why we have entered into a partnership with MeetingMasters.

Catholic Education Flanders used the OnlineStemtool.nl for its Works Council election. Those entitled to vote were given the opportunity to vote for a candidate of his or her preference.

This week it is again very busy on OnlineStemtool.nl. In the Netherlands, OnlineStemtool.nl facilitates digital decision-making for, among others, COC Netherlands, Profile International N.

On June 3, 2021, the Childcare Branch Organization held its general members' meeting. For this weighted vote, each person entitled to vote received a unique voting code with a weighting factor.

After a Dutch , Belgian , French and Spanish website about digital voting for members' councils, owners' associations, works councils, employee participation councils, cooperatives and initiatives for citizen participation, the best online voting tool now also has a German website.
Germans can now go for an online voting tool at https://www.

Kemira Rotterdam used the OnlineStemtool.nl for its Works Council election. The employees received an email invitation to vote for their favorite candidate.

In March, VvSL used the OnlineStemtool.nl to merge with NVS-NVL into one association. The vote was checked under the supervision of a notary to officially record the merger.

In April, we facilitated the voting for Golf Club Broekpolder. Among other things, they made use of the live on-site guidance.

Join the webinar on digital voting tomorrow at noon. We will discuss how to vote in an online meeting, anonymity, security, legal issues and much more!
This webinar will last 30 minutes and there will be an opportunity to ask questions live.

Last Tuesday, the Royal Dutch Rowing Association used the OnlineStemtool.nl for the third time. Because of the new features in the customer account, they were able to vote completely on their own without live assistance.

In February, the football clubs V.V. OZC and OVC '21 used the OnlineVoting tool to merge into one club. Each member received a unique voting code via email to vote in favour of the decision.

After a Dutch, Belgian and French website on digital voting for members councils, owners associations, works councils, cooperatives and citizen participation initiatives, the best online voting tool now also has a Spanish-language website.
Spanish speakers can now find the perfect online voting tool at https://www.

NLPO is a foundation that promotes the interests of local public broadcasters in the Netherlands. For the Works Council elections, NLPO used OnlineStemtool.

Not only our customers experience OnlineStemtool.nl positively, but also the users. We asked 1,000 users for their experiences.

Nucleuszorg, an organisation in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen that supports general practitioners in certain areas of healthcare, used the online voting tool for the second time last week. They were able to have the questions during the online meeting come up and closed again in the customer account themselves.

A website was recently launched on online voting for Belgian member organizations such as member councils, works councils, participation councils, initiatives for citizen participation and cooperatives (www.onlinestemtool.be).
In order to better serve all French speakers in Belgium, France and French-speaking areas, a French-language website on digital voting www.

The Online Stem Tool is also widely used in Belgium. For example, various departments of VSOA were able to vote for the Works Council election via the Online Voting Tool.

Residents of apartment complexes De Berkenhof had a week in December to cast their vote on 20 multiple choice questions. There is no maximum or minimum of the number of questions that can be voted on for the use of OnlineStemtool.

Tennisclub '91 Stadshagen used the OnlineVotingtool to vote safely during the 'ALV'. Each voter received a mailing containing his or her unique voting code, the link of the voting website and the Zoom link for the online meeting.

What does a mailing look like when I have the voting codes sent by Onlinestemtool.nl to the voters?
The mailing looks clear and user-friendly.

Small and large companies, organizations and associations that hold an online vote, digital election, vote, survey, member consultation, poll or poll and are located in Belgium are increasingly using OnlineStemtool.nl. That is why a Belgian website has now been launched especially for them.

FSV De Feijenoorder, supporters' association of the Feyenoord football club, used the OnlineVotingtool. For example, a new chairman had to be elected.

Online meeting is now the new normal and so is the holding of an online vote. We understand that it raises a number of questions or that you are wondering which option applies to your vote.

Our previous office became too small at the beginning of last year. But since then we have mainly worked from home.

Don't have a laptop or computer? Or is your phone empty exactly when you can vote?
With the Online Voting Tool you can vote via various devices. This can be done via a smartphone, tablet, laptop, desktop and PC.

Do you have a vote in which the voters are not at home in the digital world? No problem! We prepare an accessible and clear voting environment for you.
Read here the experience of Geertrui Wixley of the Evangelische Omroep: "It is a very nice and user-friendly tool, which was easy to use, even for a larger group of which not everyone is used to digital meetings.

Fource Services held its Works Council election in mid-November. More than 2000 voters had the opportunity to cast their vote for a week.

Every vote that is cast via Onlinevotingtool.com is always anonymous and we apply strict rules to guarantee the privacy of voters.

There are several additional options that you can use and also a weighting factor.
When does a weighting factor apply?

COC Nederland, the Dutch association for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders, held its annual ALV at the end of November. 20 member organizations cast their votes.

Unfortunately, because of Corona a holiday to the sun or to the snow is not going to happen for now. Still, decisions need to be made and new members approved in this day and age.

Of course, every vote on OnlineStemtool.nl must be safe and fair and cannot be influenced. We understand if you have questions about this topic and want to know how we ensure OnlineStemtool.

Do you have a voting in another language? No problem! We are happy to prepare the voting website in the desired language. ILP Vegetable preceded you and kept her vote in English.

Glastuinbouw Nederland held its GMM on 4 November, during which those entitled to vote could vote for the decisions of the Tomato Crop Cooperative. Each person entitled to vote received a unique voting code with a weighting factor.

In November we were allowed to vote for the second time for NBBU, the Dutch Association of Mediation and Temporary Employment Agencies. They used live guidance so that the questions were put to a vote when the agenda item was discussed.

From now on, voters can also select multiple answer options for a question. And it doesn't matter how many answer options you want a voter to select.

Yesterday evening the second vote of the Royal Dutch Association of Reserve Officers (RDARO) took place. More than 118 members had registered for the online meeting and were able to vote digitally.

The Nijmegen study association Tri Movere held its general members meeting (ALV) on Tuesday evening 27 October. She used the Online Voting Tool to vote in her new members and also made use of the live accompaniment.

News report today: " FC Barcelona finds keeping a physical mood in the middle of the corona crisis irresponsible."
Fortunately, onlinevotingtool.

Eben-Haezer school association held a works council election in Emmeloord for the election of the new board members. More than 200 members were allowed to vote on the voting website in a period of 5 days with the unique voting code obtained.

Hockey club 's-Hertogenbosch held its general assembly of members meeting online on Tuesday evening 13th of October. The sportclub made use of the Onlinevotingtool.

A frequently asked question is what the result of a vote looks like. You will receive a PDF file with the results after the voting period has ended.

The Dutch Association for Osteopathy (NVO) used the Online Voting Tool during its General Members Meeting on Thursday evening 8 October. We guided them during this meeting by closing the question when the corresponding agenda item was completed.

Telindus, part of the Proximus Group, is the autonomous specialist in smart and secure IT platforms. Telindus made use of Onlinevotingtool.com for the Works Council election on 24 September We not only realized the voting website for Telindus, but also sent out invitations to those entitled to vote.

Every day we receive a lot of questions from associations on how to organize a digital vote, what options there are, what is the legal status, what the costs are, etc. That is why we organize free live webinars.

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Safe and simple digital voting for a Association, Cooperative, General Members Meeting, Members Council, VVE, Works Council, Participation Council or Citizen Participation. This is possible with OnlineVotingtool.com. If desired, also with live support during a meeting, sending invitations to those entitled to vote, weighted votes based on a weighting factor, etc.

Now that the summer holidays are over for many, we again organize elections for many clients in which private groups are allowed to vote digitally. Our new colleague Jamie started at Vote Company in early August and is joining the team at https://www.

Are we going abroad on a summer vacation or not? That was of course quite a theme this year. The Online Voting Tool for private groups has now taken the step abroad.

The date for the next digital voting webinar will be announced shortly. Can't wait that long? Then contact us now for a (live) demo:

We will continue to facilitate and supervise meetings and elections during the summer period as well.
Are you curious about the possibilities and the Online Voting Tool? Please contact us via our website .

Last night we organized a live webinar. In this webinar we told everything about the operation, security and practical matters of digital voting during a general memebers meeting with the help of Onlinevotingtool.com
We are currently busy preparing for the second edition of the live webinar on online voting.

Onlinevotingtool.com for private groups is currently in full use. Recently, for example, for live voting rounds (with live guidance) from Holland Solar, Nederland Distributieland, JOVD and NBBU.

Over the past 24 hours, we have been asked numerous times whether we were involved in that Party Leader election of the CDA? The answer to that question is "No". We do facilitate online voting rounds for other political parties.

Our further developed Online Voting Tool for private groups has been used for years by cooperatives, for example. Voting was often done in a specific period.

Guiding General Member Meetings where voting can be done via https://www.onlinevotingtool.com/ is now daily business! The questions are opened and closed at the pace of the meeting.

The parties that use https://www.onlinevotingtool.com/ see that more people actively use their voting rights with digital voting! Digital voting therefore ensures more involvement and broader support! We are therefore convinced that digital voting will be permanent. Even if we are allowed to meet again to make decisions, this can be wonderfully supplemented by those entitled to vote remotely!.

Organizations use Onlinevotingtool.com every day. We are happy to give associations the tip to ask for approval if a meeting does take place to amend their statutes so that they can continue to vote digitally! For more information, visit https://www.onlinevotingtool.com/ ..