Verified Voting is the survey format to use when vote integrity matters – internal member decisions, votes on proposals, participatory budgeting, or any context where each vote must trace back to a unique, verified participant. It restricts voting to one person per email, or optionally per phone number with SMS verification. For an overview of all survey formats, see Surveys in CamBuildr: Choosing the Right Format.
Creating a Verified Voting survey
Open your landing page, drag a Survey block onto the page, and choose Verified Voting as the format. Click Edit to configure it. The editor is organised into steps – Signup, Question, Verification and Thank you.
Step 1: Question & options
Enter your question and add the options people can vote for. For each option you can set:
The answer text.
An optional image (JPG or PNG) – useful for picture-based ballots.
An optional link, so the option can point to more information.
A single Open links in a new tab toggle controls link behaviour for all options.
Because each vote is tied to a specific option, editing an option after voting has started is restricted – you'll be asked to confirm before changing it. Plan your options carefully before publishing.
Step 2: Verification
On the Verification step, choose how participants are verified:
Email – one vote per email address.
SMS – participants enter a phone number and confirm with a one-time code (TAN). This option is available only when SMS sending is enabled for your account.
You can customise the verification message (headline and button text) and, for SMS, the code-entry message (headline and button text). You can also enable a privacy disclaimer with your own text and add consents from your Multi-Consent setup.
Step 3: The signup step
Use the Signup step to set the headline and button label for the data-collection screen, enable a disclaimer, and add multi-consent options where needed.
Step 4: The thank-you screen & results
On the Thank you step, set the headline and an optional subheadline. You can also enable Show answer statistics to display the vote results once a participant has voted.
Styling
Match the survey to your page using the primary and secondary colours, background colour or transparency, rounded edges, and custom CSS.