But what do you want to use LimeSurvey for that you consider this?
Joffm
Now, there are very many usecases for this. You can start with public elections. O.K. - I agree, they wouldn't use limesurvey for this!
All typ of elections and votings where you currently have to join up, since this is the only way to make a voting fix with no option to complain.
My real usecase:
If you problay own a flat or some share of an immobile object, you probably know, that all decisions taken by the community of shareholders (owners) has to be done in a physical meeting. Normally, this meeting takes place only once per year.
But sometimes there are topics coming up during that 12 month period which need an urgent action. Currently, there are only two ways to get a bind decision on such an urgent case:
1) You collect the votings via documents you send around an collect again! UUUH - wir are in digital age - are we?
2) You organize a so called "Außerordentliche Eigentümerversammlung". This needs a lot of effort in preparation, sending out paper invitations, finding a date where most of the owners have the chance to join, ...... And, such events cost additional money!!
If there would be a possibility for a legaly accepted voting via some tool, that would bring much more flexibility (e.g. 1 voting per quarter if urgent cases exist), would make the voting independent of some date (you can allow the voting within a timeframe) and would reduce costs.
But, for this the votig must be legally accepted so no member of the community can complain about the voting later at court.
If you are familiar with the "WEG" (Wohnungseigentumsgesetz) in the past there was only a physical meeting allowed. Now, where the law had been reviewed some time ago, also "hybrid meetings" are allowed.
The (new) tools used by building management (Hausverwaltungen) meanwhile have options for online meetings according to the definition in the law. I am not aware of that, if they include also votings during this online meetings. I havn't seen such an online meeting for a owners meeting so far. What I have heared about is, that all online participants are allowed to listen to the physical meeting, but don't have permission to participate in whate manner ever, at least not voting for topics.
As far as I am aware, that was the same with docusign (or similar tools). For a long time it was only possible to sign/accept documents with your personal signature. So business documents were sent around. Some years ago the digital signiture came up (law: eIDAS). Now a lot of business organizations use digital signature on pdf documents for this.
But still, at least where customers (B2C) come in, they rarely do have a valid digital signature (Qualifizierte Signatur nach eIDAS).
During my work time (I am meanwhile retired) I followed the way of such tools like docusign and they managed to prove the acceptance of a document is secure and by that this was accepted by judges and courts.
Now some organizations use this to let customers accept documents (contracts, ....).
This was for sure a long way to come to that point. But it helps and is, as far as I know, meanwhile used by very many organizations.
If such legally acceptet voting tool would exist, it for sure would help with WEGs, and for sure with many other usecases (even those Kaninchenzüchterverein).
