At the first digital trade union conference of the GEW Rheinland-Pfalz in November 2020 in Mainz, the executive board and the back office was alone on site. The delegates watched the event on our portal via livestream from the comfort of their own homes. They could take the stand at the digital speakers desk via live link, voted using our legally secure voting tool, asked questions of those responsible and exchanged information with each other extensively via our chat tool. Journalists and guests could follow the assembly with restricted rights, so that they could, for example, follow the livestream but not participate in elections or read the chat provided for the delegates.
The special challenge at the GEW trade union congress were the many different election types. In addition to the usual votes, such as the discharge of the executive board or the adoption of resolutions and motions, there were around 30 different elections of individuals, but also list votes, each with different numbers of votes or weighting. Thanks to the easy handling of altares' versatile voting tool, various spontaneous changes in the course and type of voting as well as run-off votes on demand were possible without any problems. Likewise, the voters could be divided into their districts during the elections or the votes could be listed according to gender, for example.
