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Training shows how to enable online voting and live tallies for Shelby County meetings
Summary
A Shelby County training session walked clerks and commissioners through enabling online voting, choosing whether to display votes live, and how the system calculates pass/fail based on active voters. The mock run highlighted common setup errors — most notably unchecked voter checkboxes that block voting.
Trainer led Shelby County Commission staff and commissioners through a hands-on demonstration of the online meeting workflow and vote settings for the Vocast/Legislate platform. He instructed operators to "enable voting" and explained that the "live tally will show what's happening as it's happening," meaning the public can watch votes cast in real time.
The exercise underscored one recurring operational issue: attendees must be marked as 'voter' in the attendees tab before motions can be recorded and votes cast. The trainer found the motion button disabled until he set the voter checkboxes and told participants, "Sometimes it's that simple, Manny," to illustrate how a single setting can prevent voting. The session also covered options to show live yes/no tallies during voting or only the final results after the clerk records the vote, and how color-coding appears on the public display.
