“We manage your election from start to finish.”
Election Portal is BKY’s professionally managed election service. Your members vote online or in person — your board receives formal, defensible results. We handle everything in between.
✓ No software to install. No IT department required.
Or call 780-464-5239 — we’re happy to talk it through first.
Elections Don’t Have to Be Complicated
Election Portal replaces the printing, the postage, and the envelope-stuffing with a secure, independent, professionally managed process.
The Challenge
- × Mailing paper ballots to thousands of members is expensive
- × Staff lose days stuffing envelopes and processing returns
- × Low voter participation
- × Risk of internal influence
- × Results take too long
The Solution
- ✓ No printing, no postage — members vote from any smartphone, tablet, or computer
- ✓ Dramatically higher participation
- ✓ We handle the work — not your staff
- ✓ Independent third party your members can trust
- ✓ Results presented to your board, fully documented
Six Steps. We Handle All of Them.
Plan
We plan the scope, schedule, and ballot with you — your bylaws set the rules.
Prepare
You provide the eligible voters list; we build the ballot and secure the system.
Communicate
Members receive clear instructions by email — no training needed.
Vote
Online from any device, or in person on union-provided iPads.
Verify
Every interaction is audit-logged; we validate the count.
Present
Results presented live to your board, with full supporting documentation.
Your staff’s total involvement: approving the plan, providing the voter list, and receiving the results. That’s the point.
You See the Results. We Run the System.
Election Portal gives your union secure online voting, live participation visibility, and results your board can stand behind — without your office touching the technology.
- ✓ Hosted in Canadian data centres
- ✓ Every action recorded in audit logs
- ✓ Works on any smartphone, tablet, or computer — nothing to install
Officers Election — Business Manager
A Partner Your Board Can Defend
For more than twenty years, BKY has administered elections for some of the largest labour unions in Canada — including Ironworkers and Carpenters locals across Alberta. When members ask who ran the election, the answer is an independent third party — not the people on the ballot.
Independent
Third-party administration removes any question of internal influence.
Experienced
20+ years of union elections, from locals to national organizations.
Canadian
Your member data never leaves Canadian data centres.
Managed
Setup, communication, voting, and results — handled end to end.
You don’t need to learn software. You don’t need technical staff. You don’t need to manage the process. You need results your members trust.
Heard After the Results Were In
BKY did a fantastic job with our latest ratification voting. Emma and the BKY team are super easy to work with. We’ve used them twice now and we highly recommend BKY!
This was a very easy process given the tight timelines — you had us up and running in one day! This was the best turnout for voting in my 34 years as a member.
Emma has been great to work with. She was able to meet our tight timelines and made the technical side of our ratification vote a breeze.
Answers Before You Ask
Will this disrupt our operations?
No. There’s no software to install and no coordination with your IT department. Members vote from any smartphone, tablet, or computer; we handle the rest.
What if some members won’t vote online?
Managed elections can include in-person voting using union-provided iPads, so every member can cast a ballot comfortably and securely.
Is our member data secure?
Data is hosted in Canadian data centres, and every interaction with the system is recorded in audit logs that support the integrity of your results.
What happens after we go live?
Members receive an email announcing the election and explaining exactly how to vote. We monitor participation throughout and support voters directly.
How much work is this for our staff?
Almost none — that’s what “managed” means. Your team approves the election plan and receives a live results presentation — in person or by video — with complete supporting documentation. BKY does everything in between.
Who is BKY?
Election Portal is a service of BKY Technologies, an Edmonton-based firm that has served Canadian labour unions for more than 20 years.
What does a managed election cost?
Typically far less than running a paper election — for a membership of thousands, printing and postage alone often exceed the cost of a fully managed online vote, before counting the staff time spent stuffing envelopes and processing returns. Request pricing and we’ll show you the comparison for your membership size.
Ready to Run a Better Election?
When the next ratification, strike mandate, or officers election lands on your desk — make it this simple. Or call 780-464-5239.