MC Elections in your Secret Ballot
Dear ADDA Admins,
We have added new functionality to your Online Secret Ballot to support 2 types of Elections - Executive Commitee Election and Management Committee Election.
This was the existing functionality.
Create the Executive Committee Designations -President / Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer etc.
For each post, the Election Officer can list down the nominees and open up for voting.
Management Committee Election ( New Functionality )
In this setup, there is only one Designation – Management Committee member. The Election Officer lists all the Nominees for the Management Committee. Also the Election Officer can set the total number of Members (typically 12 ) that a Voter can vote.
Both these types of Elections have the same Lock Down Features for the Election Officer :
* can set Only Owners to Vote
* can restrict only One Vote per Flat
* can Pre-Set the time window for which the Online Ballot will be open. ApartmentADDA will automatically make it live and stop the Online Voting.
* can take an Attendance Sheet Print out where the Members who had voted Online will already be marked. So if you are following up with a Physical Election day, for the muggles, double voting can be avoided.
* can take Print out of the Score Report and combine the numbers with the Physical Election to create the Final Results
Note : The Election Officer is typically a Member of the Association nominated by the outgoing Committee or the Ad-hoc Committee. The Moderator of the ADDA ( if different ) has NO access to any of the Online Secret Ballot Pages created by the Election Officer.
Please read about our earlier Success Story on ApartmentADDA’s Online Secret Ballot : Election of Apartment Owners’ Association goes online!
Regards
ApartmentADDA Team
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Is this legal in Bangalore as per socities act?
The Societies Act of 1960 understandably has no mention of use of Technology in the Management of the Society, hence Elections are not covered either.
Most Societies add an amendment to their By-Laws accepting the use of Technology in voting.
The voting in Adda is not according to the Mumbai Co-op Housing Societies Bye-laws and Maharashtra Co-op Societies Act and is not legally tenable. However, it may be used for seeking opinion of the members.
Suprabhatji, there is no mention of technology at all in the Bye-Laws or the Act.
The Bye-Law no. 116 and Appendix B have been taken into account in the functionality of the “Secret Ballot” application. Of course, the presentation is different from the Manual format.
Appreciate your feedabck towards improvisation of the Secret Ballot.