Tally
Ranked-choice voting, in one link
Run a real instant-runoff vote without a spreadsheet or an account. Everyone ranks their choices; Tally eliminates the lowest, transfers those votes, and shows every round until one option has a majority.
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How it works
Ranked-choice voting, in one link
How instant-runoff works
If no option has more than half the first-place votes, the option in last place is eliminated and each of its ballots moves to that voter's next choice. Repeat until something crosses the majority line. It elects the option the group most agrees on — not the one that merely led a split field.
See exactly why the winner won
Most ranked-choice tools just announce a winner. Tally plays the elimination round by round, with a visible majority line and a plain-English sentence for each transfer — plus a head-to-head (Condorcet) check that flags the rare case where the runoff and the pairwise winner disagree.
More ways to use it
Every kind of group decision
Questions
Good to know
No — and that's the point. With ranked choice, the option with the most first-place votes can still lose: when the lowest option is eliminated, its voters' next choices transfer, and a different option can cross the majority line. Tally shows you that transfer, round by round, so the winner is the option the group actually prefers — not just the one that split the vote least.
No. You share one link; anyone who opens it can vote on their phone — no account, no app. The poll lives behind an unguessable link that only people you send it to can open.
Rank (ranked choice / instant-runoff) is for picking one thing — where to eat, which name, which logo — and gives you the round-by-round result. Approve is for "which of these work" — everyone taps all the acceptable options and the one most people can live with wins. Same link, same instant result.
The result shows the group's preferences — the whole reason to use it is that a chat thread never captures everyone's real ranking. Voters can add their name so the group knows who's in.
Each device gets one active ballot — voting again updates your vote rather than adding a new one. In a known group where people add their names, that keeps the result honest without any sign-up.
Yes — unlimited polls, unlimited voters, both modes, and the full round-by-round result, all free with no sign-up and no ads.