Capita LGS’ electoral services provide election management and registration services for local, European and parliamentary elections on behalf of local authorities, ensuring the potential for efficiency savings is maximised and greater community engagement is achieved.
Our election services cover all aspects of election management, from recruiting election staff to counting votes, and our primary objective is always to run elections that are judged as beacons of success against which others can be measured.
Electoral registration
As local authorities battle the constant fall in voter-registration rates and growing disengagement with individual voters, we work to ensure any areas of weakness in the voter registration process are identified and corrected efficiently and cost-effectively.
Our electoral registration service includes:
- Maintaining a local and parliamentary register of electors
- Completing the annual canvass
- Employing personal canvassers as part of the annual canvass
- Completing the rolling registration process
- Processing all absent-vote applications
- Initiating and developing community engagement.
Election management
We work in unison with our local authority clients to deliver efficient and reliable election management services that include:
- Organising advance project-planning and stakeholder meetings
- Processing nomination papers
- Appointing polling station staff
- Appointing staff to attend postal vote openings and issuing sessions, as well as the verification and count
- Preparing ballot papers and ballot boxes
- Booking polling stations
- Completing all other necessary processes during election.
Reliable electoral services that deliver results
Our electoral services deliver the following benefits:
- Improved performance indicators
- Reduced costs
- Increased electoral registration rates
- Greater interaction with local communities
- Effective targeting of certain groups within the community.