The reveal

What happens when a ballot resolves — the verdict stamp, the tally bars, who voted for what, who sat it out, and sharing the result.

Verified for Limbo 1.9.3 · 2026-06-13

The reveal is the payoff of every ballot: the moment the votes are counted, the verdict stamps in, and the whole crew sees how it went. On sealed ballots it's the first time anyone sees the tally at all.

Who can do what: everyone on the trip sees the same reveal, and anyone can share it. The only post-reveal action is organizer-gated: Reopen voting.

When reveals happen

A ballot resolves — and the reveal appears — when any of these happens:

  • Everyone eligible has voted. The ballot closes immediately.
  • The deadline passes. The verdict is called from the votes that are in.
  • An open-tally ballot hits the approval threshold early. Sealed ballots never resolve early this way — they wait for everyone or for the deadline.
  • An organizer ends it with Decide now. That reveals the tally on the spot, sealed or not.

The rules that turn votes into a verdict are covered in How group voting works.

What the reveal card shows

The reveal — verdict stamp, tally bars, voter rows, the Didn't vote row, and Share the verdict
The reveal — verdict stamp, tally bars, voter rows, the Didn't vote row, and Share the verdict

From top to bottom:

  • The stamp — a tilted APPROVED (green) or REJECTED (red) stamp slams in over the plan name, with a "Decided 2 hours ago" line under it.
  • Tally bars — Yes, No, and Abstain bars animate out to their final counts.
  • Voter rows — each voter's avatar and name with a colored choice icon and label: Yes, No, or Abstain.
  • Didn't vote — the crew members who never cast a ballot, by name, with the house rule spelled out: "No vote, no complaints."
  • Share the verdict — posts the result anywhere (more below).

Anonymous ballots: tallies only

If the ballot was set to anonymous voting, the reveal protects identities forever. Instead of voter rows, the card shows a note: "Votes were anonymous — tallies only." You still get the stamp, the bars, and the counts — you just never learn who voted which way.

Anonymity covers choices, not participation: the Didn't vote row still names the people who sat it out. See Sealed and anonymous ballots.

An anonymous reveal — full tallies, no voter rows
An anonymous reveal — full tallies, no voter rows

Where reveals show up

  • The voting screen — resolved ballots move into the Approved Plans and Rejected Plans sections as full reveal cards.
  • The Vote on Plans sheet — the same cards, under the Resolved tab.
  • Trip chat — a ballot card in the conversation flips in place to a compact verdict banner with the final tally, like "Approved — 8 yes · 2 no · 1 abstain". The full reveal with voter rows lives on the dashboards.
A resolved ballot in chat — the compact verdict banner replaces the vote buttons
A resolved ballot in chat — the compact verdict banner replaces the vote buttons

Share the verdict

  1. 1
    Open the resolved ballot on either dashboard.
  2. 2
    Tap Share the verdict.
  3. 3
    Pick any app from your device's share sheet — group chat, messages, anywhere.

The message writes itself, for example: "Sunset Catamaran (Lisbon Crew): APPROVED 8–2 ✅ — decided on Limbo".

After the reveal

The verdict stands unless an organizer steps in. Organizers see a Reopen voting button on every reveal card — it wipes all previous votes and starts a fresh 48-hour ballot, so use it deliberately. The full walkthrough is in Organizer powers.

Note

Every resolution is also written to the trip log — what was decided, when, and whether an organizer overrode the vote. Nobody can quietly rewrite history.

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