How group voting works

In Limbo, every plan can be a proposal. Instead of one person deciding where the group eats, stays, or flies, the plan goes on a ballot, your crew votes, and Limbo calls the verdict.

Who can do what: every adult crew member who has joined the trip can vote. Proposing a plan requires edit access to the trip — organizers always have it, and the trip owner can grant it to other crew members. Only the trip owner can change the voting rules themselves.

From plan to proposal

When voting is enabled for a trip, anyone with edit access can propose a plan: create the plan as usual and leave the voting toggle on. The plan becomes a proposal with its own ballot, and your crew is asked to weigh in.

Casting your ballot

Every ballot gives you three choices: Yes, No, or Abstain.

1. 1
   Open a ballot from the Decisions inbox on Home, the trip's voting dashboard, or a ballot card in the trip chat.
2. 2
   Tap Yes, No, or Abstain.
3. 3
   Changed your mind? Tap a different choice any time before the deadline. Changed your mind? Tap a different choice to update your vote any time before the ballot resolves.

Three places to vote

You never have to hunt for a ballot:

• Decisions inbox on Home — pending ballots from all your trips, sorted by deadline. Vote yes, no, or abstain right on the card without opening the trip.
• The trip's voting dashboard — open it from a Decisions card, a voting notification, or the ballot icon inside the trip. It lists every active and resolved ballot, with countdowns and progress.
• Ballot cards in trip chat — when a proposal is linked in chat, the message itself is a live ballot. Vote without leaving the conversation.

Deadlines: rolling or fixed

The trip owner picks one of two deadline styles in the voting settings:

• Rolling window — every new proposal gets its own countdown, from 1 to 30 days starting the moment it's proposed. Good for trips where ideas trickle in.
• Specific date — every proposal in the trip shares one absolute deadline (it must be at least an hour in the future). Good for "we book everything by Friday" trips.

Each ballot card shows the time remaining, like "2d left" or "3h 45m".

When a ballot resolves

Limbo resolves ballots automatically:

• Everyone has voted — the ballot closes immediately. "Everyone" means the eligible voters: the trip owner plus crew members who have actually joined. Child companions and invites that haven't been accepted don't hold ballots.
• The deadline passes — the ballot closes with whatever votes are in.
• Open-tally ballots can finish early — if tallies are visible (not sealed) and the yes votes reach the trip's approval threshold, the ballot resolves right away. Sealed ballots never resolve early on the threshold; they wait for everyone to vote or for the deadline. See Sealed and anonymous ballots.

The verdict follows these rules:

• Yes votes reach the approval threshold → approved.
• Everyone voted but the threshold wasn't reached → rejected.
• The deadline passed without reaching the threshold → simple majority of the votes cast decides, and a tie counts as approved.

The reveal

When a ballot resolves, everyone gets the reveal:

• An APPROVED or REJECTED stamp on the plan, with when it was decided.
• Animated tally bars for yes, no, and abstain.
• The voter list — who voted for what, unless the ballot was anonymous.
• A "Didn't vote" row naming the crew who sat it out. No vote, no complaints.
• A Share the verdict button that posts the result anywhere, like: "Sunset Catamaran (Lisbon Crew): APPROVED 8–2 — decided on Limbo".