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Electoral administrators are facing unprecedented challenges heading into next year’s elections. At Democracy Counts, we have been working hard to ensure our products and services are ready to help local authorities put in place measures to mitigate the growing number of election-related delivery risks.

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We've been looking at, and sharing, best practice examples with electoral administrators across the world to make our products ready for the challenges ahead. 

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Powered by Elector8 and our Citizen App, our ElectorCentre suite of integrated products (as illustrated below) allows election offices to move the majority of their services online, with the emphasis on ‘self-service’ by electors, staff, polling premise managers, candidates and agents – significantly reducing administrative burdens on election teams, automating processing, bringing down costs and removing in-person contacts for all but essential purposes.

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  • Online elector self-service – reducing queries, accelerating verification process and minimising duplicates

  • ePoll Cards

  • Online portal for absent vote submissions and auto-processing into Elector8

  • Integration with Authentic8 for COVID-19 contact tracing

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  • Import polling registers from any EMS

  • Mark CNLs and registers with tablets, reducing waiting times and time spent in polling stations

  • Collect 'Trace and trace' contact information from voters

  • Real-time clerical error updates

  • COVID-19 checklists for POs and inspectors for safer polling stations

  • Real-time monitoring of PVs handed into stations to reduce processing volumes at the count

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  • Polling station staff and inspector training

  • COVID-19 safety best practice guidance

  • Modules on conducting and managing postal vote openings

  • Count staff training

  • Nomination form completion videos to reduce errors

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  • Real-time online publication of count progress and results to allow interested parties to follow the count from home

  • Allows multiple monitors to be set up throughout your count venue to encourage social distancing

  • Professional results publication online for increased engagement

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  • Import postal vote data from any EMS

  • We provide all hardware, set-up and experienced onsite technical help

  • We scan all postal vote documentation using our ElectorScan software, manage workflows, provide processing statistics and reconcile PVS’ and ballot papers

  • Ensures increased PV volumes can be processed in time

  • Significantly reduces workloads on elections teams, reduces overall costs and frees up internal Council resource

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  • Online elector self-service – reducing queries, accelerating verification process and minimising duplicates

  • ePoll Cards

  • Online portal for absent vote submissions and auto-processing into Elector8

  • Integration with Authentic8 for COVID-19 contact tracing

  • Polling station staff and inspector training

  • COVID-19 safety best practice guidance

  • Modules on conducting and managing postal vote openings

  • Count staff training

  • Nomination form completion videos to reduce errors

  • Real-time online publication of count progress and results to allow interested parties to follow the count from home

  • Allows multiple monitors to be set up throughout your count venue to encourage social distancing

  • Professional results publication online for increased engagement

  • Import postal vote data from any EMS

  • We provide all hardware, set-up and experienced onsite technical help

  • We scan all postal vote documentation using our ElectorScan software, manage workflows, provide processing statistics and reconcile PVS’ and ballot papers

  • Ensures increased PV volumes can be processed in time

  • Significantly reduces workloads on elections teams, reduces overall costs and frees up internal Council resource

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  • Online staff self-service portal for verifying, appointing and replacing polling station, postal vote opening and count staff

  • Online candidate portal for the checking of nomination papers and appointment booking for nomination submissions

  • Online polling station premise management

  • Count planning and venue capacity management

CitizensPortalTMLogo.png

  • Online elector self-service – reducing queries, accelerating verification process and minimising duplicates

  • ePoll Cards

  • Online portal for absent vote submissions and auto-processing into Elector8

  • Integration with Authentic8 for COVID-19 contact tracing

Authentic8TMLogo.png

  • Import polling registers from any EMS

  • Mark CNLs and registers with tablets, reducing waiting times and time spent in polling stations

  • Collect 'Trace and trace' contact information from voters

  • Real-time clerical error updates

  • COVID-19 checklists for POs and inspectors for safer polling stations

  • Real-time monitoring of PVs handed into stations to reduce processing volumes at the count

Educ8TMLogo.png

  • Polling station staff and inspector training

  • COVID-19 safety best practice guidance

  • Modules on conducting and managing postal vote openings

  • Count staff training

  • Nomination form completion videos to reduce errors

ElectorCountResultsLogo_edited.jpg

  • Real-time online publication of count progress and results to allow interested parties to follow the count from home

  • Allows multiple monitors to be set up throughout your count venue to encourage social distancing

  • Professional results publication online for increased engagement

PVMS.png

  • Import postal vote data from any EMS

  • We provide all hardware, set-up and experienced onsite technical help

  • We scan all postal vote documentation using our ElectorScan software, manage workflows, provide processing statistics and reconcile PVS’ and ballot papers

  • Ensures increased PV volumes can be processed in time

  • Significantly reduces workloads on elections teams, reduces overall costs and frees up internal Council resource

We also offer scanning services to help local authorities cope with the anticipated increase of absent vote applications for the May 2021 elections. Our Scanning Bureau service can be set in the lead-up to the absent vote deadlines in April 2021.

 

As part of this service we will:

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  • Obtain a Business Reply Licence - we will provide this to you along with the Return Address. These will then need to be printed on all your Business Reply Envelopes

  • Manage the process, your way

  • Open, sort and scan your postal, proxy and postal proxy applications

  • Use your templates to accurately capture signature snippets and DOBs

  • Provide an integrated upload/download service via our secure web server

  • Provide access to an online Management Portal - full document audit trail and real time reporting

  • Provide you with a dedicated Project Manager who will manage the process from start to finish

  • Securely dispose of all documentation (if required) or store it securely for an agreed period

You can also read our blog, published in two parts, about how we as a business have dealt with the unique challenges posed by

COVID-19 here:

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