You probably know that we use Keywords or Codes to process votes and send them to your particular polls. For most of our users this involves an audience following along with a live presenter and submitting their answers to polls as they are displayed on stage or in a classroom.

“What if I want to receive multiple votes on the same poll from each of my participants? Or What if I have a bunch of polls’ instructions written down on posters or handouts?

Do my participants have to submit a separate text or web vote for each poll?”

Nope! You can submit multiple votes in one text message, one tweet, or with one web response (www.pollev.com). Here’s how it works:

• Enter the keywords or codes separated by a space into the “message body” of your text message, tweet, or the pollev.com page. You can enter as many multiple choice options as you like. Just make sure you don’t send half of a keyword if you get to the character limit on your phone. (Typically 130 – 160 characters depending on the carrier.) 
• The votes will be submitted and processed all at once, whether you’re voting on one poll or several. (Make sure you have your polls set to accept multiple responses per participant if applicable.)
• When using the session feature, you can start your message with the session keyword (to join the session) followed by the single digit answer codes to submit multiple votes within a session.
• What about Free Text Polls? – You can include a response to a Free Text Poll, as long as you enter it as the last vote in your response. If you enter another poll’s keyword after a Free Text Poll’s keyword, you will simply submit that keyword within your response to the Free Text Poll. (Note: It is best to vote on a Free Text Poll with one text message because you have a character limit when responding via SMS. So, the less votes included in that message the more space you’ll have for your reply.)

Try it out! Send a message with multiple keywords.

(Ex: Text “1ofmany 3ofmany 6ofmany” to 22333)