Tagging voters into groups
Voters can carry tags — call them groups, chapters, districts, whatever fits your organization — in three ways:
- Paste a third segment into the voter list:
email, name, group1, group2. - A "groups" column in the CSV/XLSX import, comma-separated within the cell (the downloadable templates include this column).
- The voter edit dialog, for fixing or adding tags one voter at a time.
Tags normalize to lowercase automatically, so Board and board are the same group. Each voter can carry up to 10 groups, and each tag can be up to 40 characters.
Limiting a question to groups
When editing a question, use Limit to groups to restrict it to voters carrying at least one listed tag. Leave it empty and every voter sees the question, as usual. This list shares the same 10-group, 40-character limits as voter tags. A test ballot always shows every question regardless of the sender's groups, with a Limited to: chip marking restricted ones — so you can verify targeting before you launch.
Eligible turnout in results
For a restricted question, results show N of M eligible voters rather than a plain participation count, and the results CSV export gains an (eligible voters) row for that question.
Privacy trade-off
A ballot's set of answered questions is itself information — if only the "Board" group sees a question, answering it reveals that membership, even though no one can see how it was answered. The smaller a segment, the more that pattern narrows down whose ballot is whose.
Launching checks two separate risks and warns (without blocking) if either applies: a restricted question with fewer than 10 eligible voters, where ballots may become identifiable; or any voter matching no question's groups, who'd get an empty ballot — that one fires regardless of count. Keep segments comfortably larger than 10 when secrecy matters, and make sure every voter matches at least one question.