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1 | 1 | # Organizing an election
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| 5 | +The landing page for Ballot provides easy access to |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +* the Dashboard, which provides access to the Teams |
| 8 | +* the Submissions page, which contains information about my Candidature |
| 9 | + submissions |
| 10 | +* the All Elections page, which displays information about all of the "Live" |
| 11 | + Elections |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +## Creating a team |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +* Before you organize an Election, you first need to create a Team. You can |
| 16 | + create a Team by clicking on the "Create Team" button on the Dashboard page |
| 17 | + and providing a name. |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +|Create a Team|Updated Dashboard| |
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| 22 | + |
| 23 | +* Once a Team is created, Members can be added to the team by clicking on the |
| 24 | + "Add Member" button and providing an email address of a User registered on |
| 25 | + the Platform |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +|Team details|Add a Team member|Updated team details| |
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| 31 | +## Creating an Election |
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| 34 | + |
| 35 | +* Once a "Team" has been created, all Elections for the Team can be viewed under |
| 36 | + the "Elections" page. A new Election can be created by clicking on the |
| 37 | + "Create Election" button and providing a Title for the election. |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +|Create new Election|Updated Elections page| |
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| 42 | + |
| 43 | +* Once created, the Election should be displayed in the Elections page. By |
| 44 | + default, the Election isn't "live". To make it "live", please click on the |
| 45 | + Election and update the "Status" under "Details" to "Live", provide a |
| 46 | + "Slug", and update the Description of the Election. |
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| 49 | + |
| 50 | +## Creating a Candidature Form |
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| 53 | + |
| 54 | +* Members of the Community who are interested in running for Election should |
| 55 | + submit a Candidature Form. The Candidature Form can be created by clicking |
| 56 | + on "Create Form" under the "Candidates" section of the Election |
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| 58 | + |
| 59 | + |
| 60 | +* The Candidate Form can be customized according to the needs of the Community |
| 61 | + e.g. the layout of the forum and the questions in the forum can be |
| 62 | + customized when creating the Candidature Form. |
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| 64 | + |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +* The Candidature Form needs to made "Live" by clicking on "Update Form" |
| 67 | + and updating the Status to "Live". The "Description" for the Candidature |
| 68 | + Form can also be updated here |
| 69 | + |
| 70 | +## Manage Candidates |
| 71 | + |
| 72 | +* Once created, members of the Community can express their interest in running |
| 73 | + for Election by submitting information via the Candidature Form. Information |
| 74 | + about submissions can be viewed in the "Candidates" page for the Election. |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | +|Candidates with no submissions|Candidates page with a submission| |
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