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Create, edit, and delete a voting round

Create, edit, and delete a voting round

Click “+ New” next to “Voting rounds” to create a new voting round. 

Video guide

 

Create a voting round.mov

 

To edit a voting round, open the round you wish to change and click on the button in the upper right. You can then edit all of the fields displayed, with the exception of the “Reference.”

You will not be able to delete your voting round by clicking the trash can button. See the section below to read about this in more detail.

When deleting voting rounds, be aware of different sets of circumstances which will affect how you can proceed. 

  • If you have toggled on “Skip automatic E2E initiation” in the “Summary” tab, you can delete voting rounds by clicking on Screenshot 2024-08-01 at 16.01.29.pngbutton next to the voting round you wish to delete. Then click the Screenshot 2024-08-01 at 16.06.40.pngbutton to delete the voting round.

  • If, on the contrary, you have created a voting round with an active election board or threshold ceremony (by not skipping the automatic E2E initiation), you will be prevented from deleting voting rounds. To resolve this issue, you will need to clear the election board. 

To do this, closely follow the instructions below.

  1. To clear the election board, you will need to enable the “Skip automatic E2E initiation” (found under the “Summary” tab in the election menu, whereupon you should click on Screenshot 2024-08-01 at 16.01.29.png). Toggle on “Skip automatic E2E initiation” (it will turn blue) and update the election event.

  2. Remaining in the Summary overview, click on “Clear Election.”

Note: You should only use this function in the testing stage, specifically after you are done testing your election and are ready to set up the real election data. NEVER use this function when your real election event is already set up. 

  1. A new screen pops up, after which you need to click on the red “Clear Votes” button.

*Once data is cleared, it cannot be recovered. Make sure you are ready to delete the data before proceeding.

  1. A prompt will then appear. Here, you type “clear_votes” in the text field to confirm the action to remove cast votes and the extracted voting results.

clear_election.png

  1. Now, with the election cleared, you can go back to the specific voting round and delete it.

    1. To do that, just click on the voting round you wish to delete and hit the red trash can button.

You have now deleted all votes and reports. The election will also require that you initialize the threshold ceremony and the election board.

 

Video guide

clear_votes.mov

 

Remember to initialize the threshold ceremony and the election board to be able to run the election. Find more information on how to do that in the E2E section.