form to tally votes

[Donkeygirl]

I have a form that registers members who are in a committee table. Once registered their votes may be tallied. Let me give an example. On one race a committee member may vote for up to 5 out of 8 candidates. now I have set up 15 toggle buttons for candidate slots. The idea is, that when the members "section/ district" is called up, the toggle buttons need to put the amount of that member's weight into the candidates' records that are chosen. I also need to make sure if there is any special way to have the toggle store as a number from one record in one table as a number to add to a record in another table. ie the candidate's score field must be summing the toggles it gets. Do I need this to be a query to allow this? Wow, I feel like this is a lot. I hope someone can help.
Thank you.
S-)