Purpose

Digitisation within the poll station will aim
to alleviate some of the issues facing Crawley Borough Council when
managing the Poll. This will generate many additional benefits for
Election staff and management, ultimately providing a better
experience for the voter.

Within Crawley Borough Council our poll stations use a very
traditional, manual, paper-based process. This system has served us
adequately but with the increasing demands from recent election
bills, covid, challenges with staffing and increasing demands on
the electoral system, change is imperative.

Existing challenges include; staff recruitment, voter
disengagement, poor visibility of election day progress, and
increased risk of human error, accuracy of Ballot Paper Accounts,
transparency with audits.

This was compounded by the implementation of Voter ID and the
workload and complexity of administering the poll stations will
increase dramatically.

Please note the digital aspect relates to the paperwork of the poll
clerk & presiding officer and not how the public vote which
will remain paper based.

Content

To Sign a 4yr contract with Modern Democracy
Ltd for Modern Polling Digital Poll Clerk