31st Student Council Elections – Voting Procedure

1. Voting will commence on:
Date: 22nd July 2009, Wednesday (Term 3, Week 4)
Time: 7.40 am (after Morning Assembly)
Venue: Students’ individual classrooms (even if first lesson venue is elsewhere)
Facilitated by: Form Teachers (or Elections Committee member if FT is absent)
Relevant material(s):
OAS voting sheet OR Voting Slip, voting guidelines, candidate list

2. Each student voter will each receive:
(i) OAS voting sheet OR Voting Slip
(ii) Voting guidelines
(iii) Candidate list

Details:
- Elections Committee members will be stationed outside the General Office should any logistical problem arise.
- On the day of voting, all class Form Teachers will have received a clear folder containing the above mentioned materials (of the amount specific to the number of students per class) before entering class for Morning Assembly.
(Classes are to stay in their respective classrooms for voting)
- Voting will be facilitated by Form Teachers. After students have finished shading the OAS/filling in the Voting Slip, Form Teachers shall collect all materials back into the clear folder.
- Promptly at 7.50 am, Elections Committee members will begin to go class by class to collect the clear folders.
(Any unused OAS/Voting Slips will have to be collected back as well)

3. Distribution of voters are as follows:
Year 1 votes for Year 1 candidates
Year 2 votes for Year 2 candidates
Year 3 votes for Year 3 candidates
Year 4 votes for Year 3 and Year 4 candidates
Year 5 votes for Year 3 and Year 4 candidates

4. Each student voter shall be given the following number of votes:
Year 1 – 5 votes (OAS)
Year 2 – 5 votes (Voting Slip)
Year 3 – 5 votes (Voting Slip)
Year 4 – 2 (for Year 3) + 5 (for Year 4) votes (OAS)
Year 5 – 5 votes (for any Year 3 or Year 4 candidate) (OAS)

5. Processing of votes will take place at 2.30pm on the same day.
People involved in the process include:
Student Council Teacher-Advisors
Elections Committee members
Year 5 Student Councilors