Online Annual Meetings
Many UU congregations are beginning to think about how to do an online annual meeting. The UUA has created a helpful page for this at https://www.uua.org/leadership/library/voting-online . However, as someone who ran the online voting for the offsite participants at the UU Ministers Association's annual meetings for several years, I have some additional advice. Voting Methods Zoom Polling: Those who are using Zoom as a platform for meetings and worship services will have noticed that Zoom has a "polling" feature. The advantage of this is it's integrated with Zoom, Zoom will save your results, and the results can be shared easily in the meeting. There are some disadvantages to using Zoom polling, however, as well. One disadvantage is that if two members in a household are sharing a screen, they will only get one vote. With the prevalence of smart phones, this may be minimal, and you could ask for a roll call of vote. Another disadvantage is that Zoom only