diff --git a/.htaccess b/.htaccess
index 02170ca..403e132 100644
--- a/.htaccess
+++ b/.htaccess
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ php_value 	open_basedir  		/var/www/board
 php_value 	safe_mode_exec_dir	/var/empty
 </IfModule>
 
-<FilesMatch "^(database.*|remind.php)$">
+<FilesMatch "^(database.*|remind.php|closevotes.php.*)$">
 	Order Deny,Allow
 	Deny from all
 </FilesMatch>
diff --git a/closevotes.php b/closevotes.php
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..ca95905
--- /dev/null
+++ b/closevotes.php
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/usr/bin/php
+<?
+require_once("database.php");
+$db = new DB();
+
+$db->closeVotes();
+
+?>
diff --git a/closevotes.php-script b/closevotes.php-script
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5246205
--- /dev/null
+++ b/closevotes.php-script
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# echo "select strftime('%H:%M %m%d%Y',due) from decisions where status=0;" | sqlite3 database.sqlite | xargs -n1 -I^ sudo -u www-data at  -f closevotes.php-script ^ +1minute
+/var/www/board/closevotes.php
diff --git a/motions.php b/motions.php
index a087c9e..0a35cb3 100644
--- a/motions.php
+++ b/motions.php
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 <?php
 	require_once("database.php");
 	$db = new DB();
-	$db->closeVotes();
 	$page = is_numeric($_REQUEST['page'])?$_REQUEST['page']:1;
 	$user = $db->auth();
 
diff --git a/remind.php b/remind.php
index 635c2c7..b3ce74c 100755
--- a/remind.php
+++ b/remind.php
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 require_once("database.php");
 $db = new DB();
 
-$db->closeVotes();
-
 $id = 0;
 $page = 1;