Avoiding Election Database Miscues
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Summary:
- Your member database is the backbone of everything you do.
- The benefits of having a properly managed election database will help with accuracy, planning, and reporting.
- Working with a third-party election provider can help eliminate ballot errors, manage your election, and reduce low voter participation.
Here at Survey & Ballot Systems, we’ve administered thousands of elections since our founding in 1990. Often, member organizations choose to work with SBS after administering their own elections for a while. We hear stories that range from high-stress levels and low voter participation to ballot errors causing challenged elections and lax security protocols causing member data breaches.
For more than 30 years, we’ve focused our time and efforts on becoming the member election experts. We continue to learn and grow every year. And because we’ve seen what happens when elections are run poorly, or mistakes are made, we’re dedicating this resource to help ensure these issues are on your radar, and we’re giving you tried and true ways to prevent them from derailing your election.
Your member database is the backbone of everything you do. Without accurate member data, you cannot effectively communicate with members, inform them about vital functions such as elections or even keep them in good standing by collecting dues.
Database management is an ongoing task but often only gets attention during elections. Your organization pays for mailings, and they come back undeliverable because you have the wrong address. Emails bounce. You suddenly realize you don’t even have mailing or email addresses for one-third of your members… election time is not the time you want to have to be chasing down this information. It also makes you wonder how many other communications those members have missed because you haven’t kept the database up to date.
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Hannah joined SBS in June 2022 and currently holds the role of Marketing Strategist. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from the University of Minnesota Duluth, with coursework in English literature complementing her skill set. Creating content for SBS, her contributions span from graphic design to crafting informative election resources, like blogs and eBooks. Hannah also manages email communications and is responsible for producing the SBS Newsletter, “The Ballot Box”.