{"id":4240,"date":"2025-08-25T05:40:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2025-08-25T05:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:40:16","slug":"case-study-university-of-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/case-study-university-of-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Study: University of Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twin-cities.umn.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Minnesota<\/a><\/strong> is one of the largest universities in the United States with over 52,000 students, organized into multiple colleges and schools.\u00a0Since adopting Simply Voting since 2013, and over 500 voting events have been run.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The University of Minnesota\u2019s Requirements &amp; Challenges<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are running governance elections, resolution and ratification votes as well as surveys. A mix of student leaders and university staff are managing the voting events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>System Needs:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A universal access with standardization and an audit history<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A visual aesthetic consistent with the university branding\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An efficient handling of the numerous events simultaneously<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Simply Voting\u2019s Solution<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simply Voting offers a flexible and secure online voting platform for universities. The University of Minnesota opted for:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Self-Service<\/strong> management,\u00a0 training with a train-the trainer approach and continuous availability for advanced support<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Voter Authentication integrated with campus <strong>single sign-on<\/strong>. This way, voters can access ballots using familiar university credentials<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Voter <strong>Segmentation<\/strong> to categorize voters to present unique, custom ballots for different voter groups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The results<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, the university staff and students praise the system&#8217;s ease of use and reliability. Simply Voting has become the University\u2019s trusted voting platform for running transparent and efficient elections<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking for an online voting platform to run your university election?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplevote.ca\/contactez-nous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Feel free to reach out to us.<\/a> We will be happy to provide a solution tailored to meet your requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Minnesota is one of the largest universities in the United States with over 52,000 students, organized into multiple colleges and schools.\u00a0Since adopting Simply Voting since 2013, and over 500 voting events have been run.\u00a0 The University of Minnesota\u2019s Requirements &amp; Challenges They are running governance elections, resolution and ratification votes as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-stories","category-voting-system"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4242,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions\/4242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplyvoting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}