Opening for a public vote

Zealous allows you to open any opportunity to a public vote.

The following needs to be considered when setting up a public vote:

• At least one of your round results, or your submissions, need to be made public.
• Public voting is not restricted to start and end dates – this is to allow them to run in parallel to other selection processes (you can control access to public voting by making only certain rounds results public)
• You can turn the public voting on and off at any time
• Public votes are counted across the entire opportunity – so should you open to a public vote, close it, and open it again, previous votes would still show, with new votes being added to them
• If you choose to judge submissions anonymously and open a public vote, the public will vote on anonymous submissions
• You do not need to make a separate public vote round – the public vote can be turned on during any round of judging
• Only those marked as successful in the round prior will be visible for public voting
• The public will only see the information submitted in to the submission step and no other information. They will not be able to see the application form details

To set up public voting:

1. Log in to your account
2. Go to your opportunity dashboard 
3. Click on ‘Schedule & Rounds’ on the bottom left menu
4. Scroll to the bottom and turn public voting on

You will then be able to view the total amount of public votes on your dashboard, as well as order submissions from most votes to least votes.