Review plan Ballot step: what public voters see

The Ballot step (labeled “What voters can see” in the sidebar) appears when at least one round uses Public voting. It is where you put submissions in front of voters: a Public voting round only shows voters the submissions you add here.

If the plan has more than one Public voting round, tabs at the top switch between them. The cards under the tabs show how many submissions are on the ballot, whether each voter sees everything or a random subset, how many ballots have been dealt, and how many votes have been cast.

Why use it

A public voting round only shows voters what you put on its ballot. Choosing the ballot, and whether each voter sees all of it or a random subset, keeps a large program votable and spreads votes across submissions instead of the first few on the page.

Add submissions to the ballot

Pick the pool to add, then click Add to ballot:

All submissions in plan scope: every submission the plan covers.
By submission filters: narrow by standard and custom submission fields, the same way as on the Assignments step.
Individual submissions: search by title or ID and tick the ones you want.

Submissions already on the ballot are left as they are, so you can run this as often as you like — for example, All submissions in plan scope again after new submissions come in. The confirmation tells you how many were added and how many were already on the ballot.

In a Funnel plan, a later Public voting round receives its submissions by promotion from the previous round, so the add section is replaced by a note and only the list below applies.

On the ballot

The list shows every submission voters in this round can be dealt, with the number of voters who have scored each one. Tick submissions and click Remove from ballot to take them off. A submission that already has votes cannot be removed — deselect it to remove the rest.