The Quick Count and Election Observation

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THE QUICK COUNT AND ELECTION OBSERVATION 7—Create Blank Quick Count Forms. Participants selected as monitors will need blank quick count forms to collect data from sampled polling stations. One form should be produced for each sampled polling station. These forms should provide spaces to record the polling station number, the number of votes each candidate received, the total number of valid votes cast, and the monitor’s signature. Example: 169 APPENDIX 8—CONTINUED 8—Gather Additional Supplies. You will need: • Ink Pens • Two Flip Chart Stands with Paper and Markers • Rolls of Tape • Two Calculators (recommended) All of the above tasks should be completed several days before conducting a Quick Count Demonstration. Setup for the Quick Count Exercise 1—Tape Statement of Poll Forms Up. Around the room or area where the training is taking place post all of the Statement of Poll forms with the vote count information in clear view and in any order. 2—Place Flip Chart Stands Back-to-Back at the Head of the Room. It is critical to the exercise that the flip chart stands are back to back so that the person writing on one stand cannot see what the person at the other stand is writing. At the top of one flip chart write “Official Results. ” On the top of the other flip chart write “Quick Count Results.” Also write the number of each of the polling stations included in the sample at the top of this flip chart.
A P P E N D I C E S 170 How to Conduct the Skit 1—Give an Introduction. Explain that this is a demonstration for participants to see with their own eyes how a quick count works. Explain that one group of participants will demonstrate how election officials transmit and tabulate the official results and another group will demonstrate how monitors transmit and calculate the results of a quick count. Give participants background to the demonstration, such as the type of election, number of polling stations, contesting parties and candidates and the monitoring effort. APPENDIX 8—CONTINUED 2—Assign Roles. Everyone will have a role to play in the demonstration, but some specific roles need to be assigned. Ask for volunteers and be sure to select men and women, young and old, as well as shy and outgoing participants. Participants will be needed for the following roles: a) Official Tabulator. One person will be needed to do the official tabulation of results at the election commission headquarters. Explain that this person will be responsible for adding together the vote counts collected by the election officials from all the polling stations and he or she will calculate the percent vote for each candidate. When finished, this person should have written on his or her flip chart the vote counts for every polling station, the total number of votes cast for each candidate and the percentage of votes cast for each candidate. This person is given a marker and a calculator. Have this person stand in front of the “Official Results” flip chart (the election commission headquarters). b) Quick Count Tabulator. One person will be needed to tabulate the quick count results at the monitoring effort’s headquarters. Explain that this person will be responsible for adding together the vote counts collected by monitors from all of the sampled polling stations and then he or she will calculate the percent vote for each candidate. When finished, this person should have written on his or her flip chart the vote counts for each sampled polling station, the total number of votes cast for each candidate and the percentage of votes cast for each candidate. This person is given a marker and a calculator. Have this person stand in front of the “Quick Count Results” flip chart (the monitoring efforts headquarters). c) Election Official. One election official will be needed for every polling station in the demonstration. Explain that these people will each collect the vote count information from one and only one polling station and give it to the Official Tabulator. Remind everyone that in reality these people would be responsible for conducting voting and counting at the polling station on election day and then transmitting the results to the election commission. For the purposes of this demonstration, election officials will only record and transmit vote counts to the election commission headquarters. Assign each person a polling station give them one blank Transmission of Results form and a pen. Ask all of the election officials: to go to their assigned polling station when the start signal is
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