How To Submit Your Stewardship Board Vote Online Via OpaVote

Learn how to access your ballot and cast your votes for the SWATS CST Stewardship Board. This guide walks you through the online voting process to ensure your vote is recorded. Access the voting link in your email. Add each candidate in your order of preference. Drag and drop to rank the candidates. Submit your vote.

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Review the voting guide for this Stewardship Board election, and read candidate bios and statements.

Navigate to your email inbox.

Open the email 'Stewardship Board '26' from 'OpaVote Voting Link' (noreply@opavote.com)

Click "Read more about their roles, duties, responsibilities, eligibility requirements, and desired attributes here"

Scroll to review information about The Stewardship Board, the job description, eligibility criteria, desired attributes, etc.

Click "2026 Stewardship Board Candidates"

Click or hover over each candidate and scroll to read their/her/his bio, statement, and application answers.

Access Your Voting Link

Navigate back to your email inbox.

Open the email 'Stewardship Board '26' from 'OpaVote Voting Link' (noreply@opavote.com)

Click 'Vote' button in email body. \ This will take you to a link that starts with <https://opavote.com/en/vote/> followed by a series of numbers that are unique to you to keep your vote secure and anonymous.

Configure Your Ballot

Add desired candidates to ballot by clicking 'Add' next to their names. Use the buttons to add choices to the ballot.\ (Again, the URL of the page here starts with <https://opavote.com/en/vote/> and ends with a series of numbers that are unique to you)

Rank candidates in order of preference by clicking names in 'Your ballot' list and dragging to arrange them in order of preference with your most preferred at the top and your least preferred at the bottom. See the voting guide for a complete explanation of Ranked Choice Voting and how it works.

Submit Your Vote

Once the order looks correct, with your most preferred at the top and your least preferred at the bottom, click 'Vote!' to submit your ballot.

Review your rankings once more and click 'Confirm' to submit your ballot.

That's it! You're done. Thanks for voting in the 2026 SWATS CST Stewardship Board election!!

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How To Submit Your Stewardship Board Vote Online Via OpaVote

Community Stewardship Trust
14 steps
3 minutes

Opavote

Gmail

Theguild

Review the voting guide for this Stewardship Board election, and read candidate bios and statements.

Navigate to your email inbox.

Open the email 'Stewardship Board '26' from 'OpaVote Voting Link' (noreply@opavote.com)

Click "Read more about their roles, duties, responsibilities, eligibility requirements, and desired attributes here"

Scroll to review information about The Stewardship Board, the job description, eligibility criteria, desired attributes, etc.

Click "2026 Stewardship Board Candidates"

Click or hover over each candidate and scroll to read their/her/his bio, statement, and application answers.

Access Your Voting Link

Navigate back to your email inbox.

Open the email 'Stewardship Board '26' from 'OpaVote Voting Link' (noreply@opavote.com)

Configure Your Ballot

Submit Your Vote

Once the order looks correct, with your most preferred at the top and your least preferred at the bottom, click 'Vote!' to submit your ballot.

Review your rankings once more and click 'Confirm' to submit your ballot.

That's it! You're done. Thanks for voting in the 2026 SWATS CST Stewardship Board election!!