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How to run a valid assembly
What quorum measures and against what, how a voter’s weight is worked out, and what makes a record verifiable afterwards — the ideas behind a general assembly, explained once. For how to do each thing in the product, the guides are in Help & Support.
Voting rights and weight
Who gets how many votes, and why it is rarely one each: share capital and voting rights are different numbers, and share classes set the rest.
3 articles
Quorum, participation and counting
Whether a meeting counts and how it decides: what quorum measures and against what, how per-item turnout differs from it, and how ballots become an outcome.
4 articles
Evidence, identity and data
How a result is defended afterwards: establishing who cast each vote, keeping the record tamper-evident, and what a verifiable evidence package contains.
4 articles
All articles
- Data Privacy and GDPRHow Assembley approaches personal data and GDPR — where it is processed, what data an assembly processes
- How Digital General Assemblies WorkWhat a digital general assembly is, how it compares to a paper or video-call meeting, and why a verifiable record is what makes the result legally defensible.
- How Vote Integrity Is ProtectedA plain-language explanation of how Assembley keeps an assembly's record tamper-evident — append-only vote records, frozen vote weights
- How Votes Are CountedHow Assembley tallies votes — by voting rights for company assemblies and one-per-member for associations
- How Voting Weight Is CalculatedExactly how Assembley turns a company voter's shares and class into a voting weight — the shares × votes-per-share formula, when it is computed
- Identity Verification LevelsHow Assembley verifies voter identity — a one-time email passcode as the baseline
- Per-Item Turnout vs QuorumThe difference between per-item turnout and meeting quorum in Assembley — one measures participation in voting rights on a single item
- Share Capital vs Voting Rights ExplainedWhy Assembley keeps share capital and voting rights as two separate numbers for company voters, what each one is used for
- The Evidence Package ExplainedWhat the Assembley evidence package contains, the formats it comes in, and why a record that verifies itself matters when a result is challenged
- Understanding QuorumWhat quorum means in Assembley, how it is measured as a percentage of share capital for company assemblies (and members for associations)
- Understanding Share Classes and Voting RightsHow Assembley separates share capital from voting rights, how share classes set votes per share to compute voting weight