Digitizing Club Elections: Dublin Frontrunners with NemoVote

In this NemoVote Podcast episode, Aaron, COO of NemoVote, talks with Mark Armstrong, chairperson of Dublin Frontrunners – Ireland’s largest LGBT running club – about how they ran their first digital club election with NemoVote. Mark shares how the club set up a blended AGM, met a strict quorum requirement, and moved a sensitive election process from paper ballots to a secure, anonymous online voting system. You’ll learn how a volunteer-led sports club successfully transitioned from in-person paper voting to secure online voting, while actually strengthening member democracy, transparency, and trust. Mark explains why they looked specifically for a European, GDPR-compliant online voting platform and why, after testing different options and NemoVote’s free demo, they chose NemoVote. We cover: • Blended AGM setup combining on-site and remote participation via Google Meet. • Reaching a high quorum (one third of members + one) with over 600 members. • Running elections for 14 candidates for 9 seats – fair, secret, and transparent. • Voter authentication via unique email address as a “digital voting passport”. • Passwordless magic link login for a smooth, low-friction voting experience. • Live technical support from NemoVote plus an independent election board as extra oversight. • Excel voter upload, live voter presence tracking, and instant result charts. • Why going digital is becoming essential for modern clubs, unions, and associations. This episode is especially relevant for: • Sports clubs, running clubs, football and rugby clubs. • Student councils, university senates, school boards. • Trade unions, political parties, member-based associations and NGOs. • Volunteer-driven organizations that need compliant, secret ballots without heavy admin overhead. If you are planning to move your club or association elections online, this is a practical real-world case study: from paper and in-person ballots to secure hybrid online elections powered by NemoVote. 👉 Learn more about NemoVote – secure online voting for clubs, schools, universities, unions and associations – in our blog article “Online Voting for Organizations https://blog.nemovote.com/online-voti... Chapters: 0:00 Intro: NemoVote Podcast & guest introduction 0:23 Dublin Frontrunners: Ireland’s largest LGBT running club 0:44 Community, training schedule & international Frontrunners trips 2:01 Why go digital? From paper ballots to online voting 2:18 Hybrid AGM, quorum rules & challenges with 600+ members 3:34 How they checked quorum for on-site and online participants 4:28 Searching for a secure European online voting solution 4:34 First experience with NemoVote’s free demo & tutorials 5:40 Email as digital passport vs. one shared QR code 7:08 Live tech support & election board oversight for a critical vote 8:35 On-site voters, QR codes & why they chose email login 9:25 Magic link login – seamless and still highly secure 10:09 Test vote “Is today Tuesday?” to calm the room 11:11 Email delivery, short delay & monitoring who is ready to vote 12:03 Biggest benefit: seamless process and instant, visual results 13:24 Favorite features: charts, candidate photos and Excel upload 15:07 Weighted voting & more complex election types as an option 15:40 Does online voting hurt or boost engagement? 17:06 Digital voting as a core part of a modern sports club 17:48 Advice to other sports clubs & why Mark recommends NemoVote