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Organizing an election

Dashboard

The landing page for Ballot provides easy access to

  • the Dashboard, which provides access to the Teams
  • the Submissions page, which contains information about my Candidature submissions
  • the All Elections page, which displays information about all of the "Live" Elections

Creating a team

  • Before you organize an Election, you first need to create a Team. You can create a Team by clicking on the "Create Team" button on the Dashboard page and providing a name.
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  • Once a Team is created, Members can be added to the team by clicking on the "Add Member" button and providing an email address of a User registered on the Platform
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Creating an Election

Team elections

  • Once a "Team" has been created, all Elections for the Team can be viewed under the "Elections" page. A new Election can be created by clicking on the "Create Election" button and providing a Title for the election.
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  • Once created, the Election should be displayed in the Elections page. By default, the Election isn't "live". To make it "live", please click on the Election and update the "Status" under "Details" to "Live", provide a "Slug", and update the Description of the Election.

Election status

Creating a Candidature Form

Election candidates

  • Members of the Community who are interested in running for Election should submit a Candidature Form. The Candidature Form can be created by clicking on "Create Form" under the "Candidates" section of the Election

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  • The Candidate Form can be customized according to the needs of the Community e.g. the layout of the forum and the questions in the forum can be customized when creating the Candidature Form.

Edit candidate form

  • The Candidature Form needs to made "Live" by clicking on "Update Form" and updating the Status to "Live". The "Description" for the Candidature Form can also be updated here

Manage Candidates

  • Once created, members of the Community can express their interest in running for Election by submitting information via the Candidature Form. Information about submissions can be viewed in the "Candidates" page for the Election.
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