Guide

Student and community priority voting

Clubs, councils, and neighborhood groups make decisions with volunteers, uneven attendance, and strong personalities. Private ranked voting gives everyone an equal-weight say without needing everyone in the same room.

  • Good for themes, projects, budget priorities, and shortlists
  • Private ballots reduce peer pressure among students
  • Not appropriate for official elections requiring verified rolls
Create a private group

Keep the group closed

Invite by link only, set an expiry, and revoke links after the roster is set. A Ravo group never appears in search results or on public Ravo pages, so a school or community group's internal questions stay internal.

Make participation easy

Keep the option list short enough to rank on a phone in a minute, allow partial rankings so people can rank only what they care about, and give a clear closing time.

Explain the method out loud

Show participants how positions become points before they vote. Ranked voting only builds trust when the counting is understandable; Ravo includes the method alongside every result for exactly that reason.

Know the limits

This is a tool for understanding collective priorities. For a binding officer election or anything requiring identity verification, chain of custody, or an audit trail, use a system built for that purpose.