# How people vote

People vote by opening a link — no 42min account required. This page describes what
they see, so you know what you're sending them. (Want to *collect* the votes? See
[Results and booking](/help/roundtables/results-and-booking).)

## Getting to the poll

There are two ways people reach a roundtable, depending on its
[audience mode](/help/roundtables/creating-a-roundtable):

- **Anyone with the link** — you share one link (from the **Share** tab or the card's
  *Copy link* button). It looks like `42min.us/rt/…`. Anyone who opens it can vote after
  entering their name and email.
- **Specific people** — each invitee gets their own link in an invite email from 42min.
  Their link already knows who they are, so there's nothing to fill in.

## Voting

The poll shows the meeting details (host, duration, location) on one side and the
proposed times on the other, **grouped by day and shown in the voter's own time zone** —
so nobody has to do time-zone math.

To respond, the voter **taps a time** to cycle through the options:

- One tap → **Yes** (this works for me).
- If you allowed *Maybe* votes, a second tap → **Maybe** (could make it work).
- Another tap clears it.

There is deliberately **no "No"** button — leaving a time unmarked already means it
doesn't work. Voters can mark as many times as they like.

How responses are saved depends on how they arrived:

- **Personal invite links** save each change automatically — a small "Saved" note
  confirms it.
- **Shared-link voters** pick their times, then enter their name and email and click
  **Save** to submit. After that, their changes save automatically too.

If **Open** voting is on, each time also shows a live count of how many people have
picked it. With **Blind** voting, voters only see their own choices.

## Changing a vote later

A response is never final. As long as voting is open, anyone can reopen their link and
change their picks — returning on the same device restores their previous answers
automatically. A deadline countdown on the page shows how long they have (it turns red in
the final 24 hours).

## Reminders

For **specific-people** roundtables with reminders on, 42min automatically nudges anyone
who hasn't responded — around the halfway point to the deadline and again about 24 hours
before it (or once ~48 hours after publishing if there's no deadline). You can also send
a reminder by hand from the [Results](/help/roundtables/results-and-booking) tab.
Shared-link roundtables have no fixed invitee list, so they don't send reminders.

## After voting closes

Once you book a time — or the roundtable expires or is canceled — the link stops
accepting votes. Anyone who opens it then sees a short "voting is over" message, and, if a
time was booked, the confirmed date and time. The people on the booked meeting also get
the normal calendar invitation and confirmation email for it.

## Common pitfalls

- **Past times disappear.** A candidate time that has already passed is hidden from the
  poll — it can't be booked, so there's nothing to vote on.
- **"Enter your name and a valid email."** Shared-link voters must identify themselves
  before their votes can be saved. Returning with the same email updates the existing
  response rather than creating a duplicate.
- **A voter sees no counts.** That roundtable uses **Blind** voting — counts are visible
  to the organizer only.