Board Election Services

The preparation and processing of the elections for Boards of Trustees is a task which can be easily handed over by boards to their Returning Officer – with little thought as to the magnitude of the task.

The most difficult tasks are getting the roll and mailing list right, and packing the letters for despatch – twice, one for the notice and nomination form and one for the voting papers. This latter is an enormous manual task, for a school of only 500 students, requiring up to 2000 letters to be prepared and posted.

GMS offers a ‘returning officer’ service for Boards of Trustees elections. This is a totally independent service which is offered at two levels:

• A full service where GMS provides the returning officer who carries out all the tasks of preparing for the election, counting of votes and declaration of results
• A postal dispatch service only where the school chooses its own returning officer but GMS takes away the drudgery of printing, packing and posting the nomination forms and the voting papers.

 Elections 2010