Maintain Normality and Avoid Election Stress.
2019 saw the release of our new Board Elections Manager tool. Over 280 schools signed up to hold their School Board Elections online in 2019. It was great to have the opportunity to pioneer something that made such a positive impact on our schools and their elections.
The portal allows schools to keep track of every step of their Election process, with their Returning Officer having access to review and accept nominations for candidacy.
To see the Elections Manager in action, please see the attached video.
Use CES to run your election
Let CES do the work for you
CES will undertake the entire election process for you. No more staff photocopying papers, incurring mail costs on behalf of the school, etc. We will make the process seamless with a complete understanding of how School Board elections work.
We always work in conjunction with your School and using our new technology we start with setting up an individual school website to receive nominations.
You are able to see into this and view the status of your election.
You can view how many nominations have been approved, how many nominations are still pending, and how many nominations are required for a Board to be formed.
You can download candidate statements for use in School newsletters etc.
CES fundamentally understands the School Board election process having undertaken over 1000 elections for schools over the last ten years. Our new School Elections Manager is an invaluable tool that will ensure your school and community run a problem-free election process, allowing you to see into the entire process. Please don’t hesitate to contact us for further details. As always, we are here for you and we will guide you through the process every step of the way
Want to run your own online election using the Election Manager?
CES will set your school up with a unique website for the election process
CES fundamentally understands the school Board election process having undertaken over 1000 elections for schools over the last ten years. Our new School Elections Manager is an invaluable tool that will ensure your school and community run a problem-free election process, allowing you to manage the entire process yourselves.
After you have logged into your Elections Dashboard you will be able to download your Returning Officer user guide for the School Elections Manager. The guide outlines everything you need to know with simple step-by-step instructions and illustrations.
From the School Election Website, you can personalise, then download and print candidate cover letters and nomination forms. The candidates will be directed to the School Elections Website to enter their candidate information, profile and photo. You will be able to see this process every step of the way.
You will be responsible for reviewing and approving or declining nominations that are submitted. The website allows you to review nominations as soon as they are submitted by the candidate.
After nominations close, the website will produce a final result. You will be responsible for updating the election results on the website.
If you have exactly the right number of candidates to fill the BOT spaces, you will not need to run a vote and you can proceed with publishing the election results. You can download a results advertisement from the website to be sent to a community publication.
Also available to download is an Elected Candidates letter which can be sent to candidates.
If you have more candidates than BOT places available and you need to proceed with a vote, you can download the standard approved voting paper and a candidate statement document. The website automatically collates all the approved candidate’s statements into one alphabetical, downloadable document to be used to accompany your school’s voting paper which you will personalize and send to your school community.
After voting is completed you will enter the voting results against each candidate. Again, the website will allow you to publish the election results both for the community and for candidates. Candidates can also see the results of the election on the election website.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us for further details. As always, we are here for you and we will guide you through the process every step of the way.
