About Padgett Communications
For more than 30 years, Padgett Communications has run the voting and audience response behind meetings where the outcome actually matters — the board election that has to hold up, the shareholder vote that has to be defensible, the day-long session that has to keep a thousand people engaged. You don’t want a result like that riding on guest Wi-Fi and a hope that everyone downloaded the app.
We’re not a polling app. We’re the team that shows up, sets up, runs the session live from the control table, and hands you clean records on the way out. When a vote has to stand up to scrutiny — or a meeting has to land — organizations want someone who has done this thousands of times standing in the room. That’s us.
Where We Came From
Padgett started in 1994 as a teleprompting and audiovisual company. Within a couple of years, founder Todd Padgett saw where the real demand was and narrowed the whole business down to one thing: audience response, done right. That focus never widened back out — for three decades, ARS and delegate voting have been the entire job, not a line item next to a dozen others.
We still run the way we started: one office in Tampa, and a fleet of more than 14,000 keypads warehoused, tested, and maintained on-site between events. Not rented when a job comes in — owned, maintained, and ready. That single-location, single-focus model is deliberate. It’s how we keep the staff trained and the equipment dependable instead of spread thin across satellite offices and freelancers.
What We Actually Do
We provide fully managed, on-site electronic voting and audience response for two kinds of rooms.
When the room is deciding something that has to be right, we run formal elections and balloting:
- Officer and board elections
- Bylaw and constitutional amendments, resolutions, budget approvals
- Credentialed, weighted, and delegate-based voting under formal rules of order
- Nominations and run-offs from the floor, handled live with no delay between ballots
When the room is a corporate, medical, or association meeting, we run the polling and engagement that keeps people in it:
- Live Q&A and knowledge checks that confirm the content landed
- Demographic breakdowns and individual or team tracking across breakout rooms
- Speaker and session evaluations
- Interactive games built in your colors and logos
Either way, the data is archived as you go and in your hands — Excel, PowerPoint, PDF — usually before your project manager leaves the building. “Fully managed” is the part that matters: we handle the planning, the equipment, the live operation, and the reporting, so your team runs the meeting instead of the technology. And when a meeting needs orderly floor discussion, our TalkTrack™ system manages the speaker queue so every voice is heard in turn and on the record.
Why Organizations Trust Us
After more than 10,000 meetings, the reason clients call the first time is the same reason about three in four call again: when the result has to stand up — or the room has to stay with you — they want people who do exactly this for a living.
What stays constant across every event:
- Full-time, trained Padgett staff — never freelance, never a box of parts left at the dock
- A dedicated project manager in the room, start to finish
- Dedicated keypads on a controlled RF channel — no venue Wi-Fi, no personal phones in the count
- Experience with formal procedure and parliamentary rules, at every size of room
- Clean, auditable records, archived on our own servers for year-over-year comparison later
Who We Work With
We support governance and enterprise events across associations, corporations, government bodies, unions, nonprofits, and medical and professional societies — anywhere a trustworthy count matters, or a planner needs the audience genuinely in the room. From ten people around a boardroom table to thousands in an auditorium. We work throughout the United States and internationally, and we know the travel, shipping, power, and customs side cold.
Let’s Talk About Your Meeting
Tell us what you’re running — an election, a convention, a sales meeting, a medical session — and we’ll walk you through exactly how Padgett would handle it.