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Election Monitoring Unit (EMU) is responsible for making sure that, at all times, our website reflects who will be on the ballot for each election. This ensures that voters are provided with a full picture of who is running for each office, and what they will ultimately see in the voting booth. Election Monitors track and update all elections, candidates, and election results.
Monitoring elections is the first step in the Elections Department Process. We make the lists that the rest of the department depends on for mailings, candidate contacts, and press reports. The Profiles and Issue Positions researchers rely on EMU's candidate lists to determine who they should conduct research for.
The core duties of EMU are finding and entering candidate lists, and keeping these lists updated through primaries, runoffs, recalls, candidate filing deadlines, withdrawals, deaths, appointments, and any other possible changes candidates may go through. To keep up with these changes, we rely on the election officials for each state. These websites can be incredibly useful, but sometimes questions arise. When in doubt, call or email the election officials. They're nice (generally) and knowledgeable (almost as frequently).
Nearly as vital as maintaining the candidate lists is communication with other members of the department. The Elections Research Director needs to know the status of the lists, as well as what sort of intern/staff/member help EMU needs on a daily basis. The director also has the final say on questions or solutions to problems that may arise.
For any changes involving Congressional/Gubernatorial Candidates, it is important to inform not only the entire Elections Department, but also the National Director and Director of Officials Research.
Any changes that involve State Legislature and other Statewide offices, should be passed on to the entire Elections Department.
Here are some of the pages that will be useful for learning the principles of Elections Monitoring:
- [[AddingElections Adding Elections]]
- [[FindingCandidateLists Creating Candidate Lists]]
- [[CandidateRemovalsandWithdrawals Candidate Removals & Withdrawals]]
- [[Runningmates Running Mates]]
- [[VoterRegistration Voter Registration]]
- [[CityCountyBackground City/Local Election Coverage]]
- [[CityCounty City County]]
- [[BallotMeasures Ballot Measures]]
- [[QCWeeklyReports Reporting]]
- [[CalendarsandTracking Calendars and Tracking]]
- [[Dailies Dailies]]
- [[ProcessingElectionResults Processing Election Results]]
~~- [[ElectionResultsManagement Management of Election Results]]
~~- [[CollectionofElectionResults Collection of Election Results]]
~~- [[DeterminingElectionWinners Determining Election Winners]]
~~- [[EnteringElectionResultsIntoAdmin Entering Election Results into Admin]]
~~- [[AdvancingElectionResultstotheInternalWeb Advancing/Releasing Election Results]]
~~- [[FinalWebcheckofElectionResults Final Webcheck of Election Results]]
- [[PartyChangesRedistricting Officials Party Changes and Redistricting]]
- [[AddingAPoliticalParty Adding a Political Party]]
- [[Dupes Dupes]]
- [[PoliticalResourcesExpectations Political Resources Expectations]]
- [[PoliticalResourcesAdmin Managing Political Resources]]
- [[DefiningMajorCandidates Defining Major Candidates]]
Monitoring elections is the first step in the Elections Department Process. We make the lists that the rest of the department depends on for mailings, candidate contacts, and press reports. The Profiles and Issue Positions researchers rely on EMU's candidate lists to determine who they should conduct research for.
The core duties of EMU are finding and entering candidate lists, and keeping these lists updated through primaries, runoffs, recalls, candidate filing deadlines, withdrawals, deaths, appointments, and any other possible changes candidates may go through. To keep up with these changes, we rely on the election officials for each state. These websites can be incredibly useful, but sometimes questions arise. When in doubt, call or email the election officials. They're nice (generally) and knowledgeable (almost as frequently).
Nearly as vital as maintaining the candidate lists is communication with other members of the department. The Elections Research Director needs to know the status of the lists, as well as what sort of intern/staff/member help EMU needs on a daily basis. The director also has the final say on questions or solutions to problems that may arise.
For any changes involving Congressional/Gubernatorial Candidates, it is important to inform not only the entire Elections Department, but also the National Director and Director of Officials Research.
Any changes that involve State Legislature and other Statewide offices, should be passed on to the entire Elections Department.
Here are some of the pages that will be useful for learning the principles of Elections Monitoring:
- [[AddingElections Adding Elections]]
- [[FindingCandidateLists Creating Candidate Lists]]
- [[CandidateRemovalsandWithdrawals Candidate Removals & Withdrawals]]
- [[Runningmates Running Mates]]
- [[VoterRegistration Voter Registration]]
- [[CityCountyBackground City/Local Election Coverage]]
- [[CityCounty City County]]
- [[BallotMeasures Ballot Measures]]
- [[QCWeeklyReports Reporting]]
- [[CalendarsandTracking Calendars and Tracking]]
- [[Dailies Dailies]]
- [[ProcessingElectionResults Processing Election Results]]
~~- [[ElectionResultsManagement Management of Election Results]]
~~- [[CollectionofElectionResults Collection of Election Results]]
~~- [[DeterminingElectionWinners Determining Election Winners]]
~~- [[EnteringElectionResultsIntoAdmin Entering Election Results into Admin]]
~~- [[AdvancingElectionResultstotheInternalWeb Advancing/Releasing Election Results]]
~~- [[FinalWebcheckofElectionResults Final Webcheck of Election Results]]
- [[PartyChangesRedistricting Officials Party Changes and Redistricting]]
- [[AddingAPoliticalParty Adding a Political Party]]
- [[Dupes Dupes]]
- [[PoliticalResourcesExpectations Political Resources Expectations]]
- [[PoliticalResourcesAdmin Managing Political Resources]]
- [[DefiningMajorCandidates Defining Major Candidates]]
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Monitoring elections are the first step in the PCT Process. We make the lists that the rest of the department depends on for mailings, candidate contacts, and press reports. The Research Department and VoteEasy researchers rely on EMU's candidate lists to determine who they should conduct research for.
The core duties of EMU are finding and entering candidate lists, and keeping these lists updated through primaries, runoffs, recalls, candidate filing deadlines, withdrawals, deaths, appointments, and any other possible changes candidates may go through. To keep up with these changes, we rely on the election officials for each state. These websites can be incredibly useful, but sometimes questions arise. When in doubt, call or email the election officials. They're nice (generally) and knowledgeable (almost as frequently).
Nearly as vital as maintaining the candidate lists is communication with other members of the department. The Elections & Candidates Research Director needs to know the status of the lists, as well as what sort of intern/staff/member help EMU needs on a daily basis. The director also has the final say on questions or solutions to problems that may arise.
For any changes involving Congressional/Gubernatorial Candidates, it is important to inform not only the entire Elections Department, but also the National Director, Director of Officials Department, as well as the Section Heads for Public Statements, Special Interest Group Ratings, Campaign Finance, and KeyVotes.
Any changes that involve State Legislature and other Statewide offices, should be passed on to the entire Elections Department.
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The core duties of EMU are finding and entering candidate lists, and keeping these lists updated through primaries, runoffs, recalls, candidate filing deadlines, withdrawals, deaths, appointments, and any other possible changes candidates may go through. To keep up with these changes, we rely on the election officials for each state. These websites can be incredibly useful, but sometimes questions arise. When in doubt, call or email the election officials. They're nice (generally) and knowledgeable (almost as frequently).
For any changes involving Congressional/Gubernatorial Candidates, it is important to inform not only the entire Elections Department, but also the National Director, Director of Officials Department, as well as the Section Heads for Public Statements, Special Interest Group Ratings, Campaign Finance, and KeyVotes.
Any changes that involve State Legislature and other Statewide offices, should be passed on to the entire Elections Department.
For any changes involving Congressional/Gubernatorial Candidates, it is important to inform not only the entire Elections Department, but also the National Director, Director of Officials Department, as well as the Section Heads for Public Statements, Special Interest Group Ratings, Campaign Finance, and KeyVotes.
Any changes that involve State Legislature and other Statewide offices, should be passed on to the entire Elections Department.
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Election Monitoring Unit (EMU) is responsible for making sure that, at all times, our website reflects who will be on the ballot for each election. This ensures that voters are provided with a full picture of who is running for each office, and what they will ultimately see in the voting booth. Election Monitors track and update all elections, candidates, and election results.
Monitoring elections are the first step in the PCT Process. We make the lists that the rest of the department depends on for mailings, candidate contacts, and press reports. The Research Department and VoteEasy researchers rely on EMU's candidate lists to determine who they should conduct research for.
The core duties of EMU are finding and entering candidate lists, and keeping these lists updated through primaries, runoffs, recalls, candidate filing deadlines, withdrawals, deaths, appointments, and any other possible changes candidates may go through. To keep up with these changes, we rely on the election officials for each state. These websites can be incredibly useful, but sometimes questions arise. When in doubt, call or email the election officials. They're nice (generally) and knowledgeable (almost as frequently) and if they don't know the answers, no one does.
Nearly as vital as maintaining the candidate lists is communication with other members of the department. The Elections & Candidates Research Director needs to know the status of the lists, as well as what sort of intern/staff/member help EMU needs on a daily basis. The director also has the final say on questions or solutions to problems that may arise.
Monitoring elections are the first step in the PCT Process. We make the lists that the rest of the department depends on for mailings, candidate contacts, and press reports. The Research Department and VoteEasy researchers rely on EMU's candidate lists to determine who they should conduct research for.
The core duties of EMU are finding and entering candidate lists, and keeping these lists updated through primaries, runoffs, recalls, candidate filing deadlines, withdrawals, deaths, appointments, and any other possible changes candidates may go through. To keep up with these changes, we rely on the election officials for each state. These websites can be incredibly useful, but sometimes questions arise. When in doubt, call or email the election officials. They're nice (generally) and knowledgeable (almost as frequently) and if they don't know the answers, no one does.
Nearly as vital as maintaining the candidate lists is communication with other members of the department. The Elections & Candidates Research Director needs to know the status of the lists, as well as what sort of intern/staff/member help EMU needs on a daily basis. The director also has the final say on questions or solutions to problems that may arise.
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Monitoring elections are the first step in the PCT Process. We make the lists that the rest of the department depends on for mailings, candidate contacts, and press reports. The Research Department and VoteEasy researchers rely on EVDU's candidate lists to determine who they should conduct research for.
The core duties of EVDU are finding and entering candidate lists, and keeping these lists updated through primaries, runoffs, recalls, candidate filing deadlines, withdrawals, deaths, appointments, and any other possible changes candidates may go through. To keep up with these changes, we rely on the election officials for each state. These websites can be incredibly useful, but sometimes questions arise. When in doubt, call or email the election officials. They're nice (generally) and knowledgeable (almost as frequently) and if they don't know the answers, no one does.
Nearly as vital as maintaining the candidate lists is communication with other members of the department. The Elections & Candidates Research Director needs to know the status of the lists, as well as what sort of intern/staff/member help EVDU needs on a daily basis. The director also has the final say on questions or solutions to problems that may arise.
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Nearly as vital as maintaining the candidate lists is communication with other members of the department. The Elections & Candidates Research Director needs to know the status of the lists, as well as what sort of intern/staff/member help EVDU needs on a daily basis. The director also has the final say on questions or solutions to problems that may arise.
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[[PCTProcessesOverview Scope of Coverage]]
[[ManagementofQualityControl Management of Elections & Vacancies Detection Unit]]
[[HowWeCollectCandidates How We Collect Candidates]] (Outdated as of 2016)
EVDU Tasks:
- [[CalendarsandTracking Creating Calendars and Reporting Progress]]
- Maintaining Election Data
- [[CollectingElectionDates Collecting Election Dates]]
- [[AddingElections Adding Elections and Election Stages]]
- [[AddingCandidatestoElections Maintaining Candidate Rosters (Candidate Associations to Elections)]] (Outdated as of 2016)
- [[FindingCandidateLists Finding and Preparing Candidate Lists]]
- Paying Special Attention to [[Presidential Presidential Candidates]] and [[Judicial Judicial Candidates]]
- [[++CandidateListImport Importing Candidate Lists++]](No longer done) or [[EnteringCandidateLists Entering Candidate Lists]]
- [[UpdatingCandidateLists Updating Candidate Lists]]
- [[CandidateRemovalsandWithdrawals Candidate Removals and Withdrawals]]
- [[Runningmates Adding Relationships to Candidates' Elections (Runningmates)]]
- [[DefiningMajorCandidates Defining "Major" Candidates for Inclusion in Presidential VoteEasy and for Highlighting in Our Communications]]
- [[ProcessingElectionResults Processing Election Results]]
- [[ExceptionCandidates Tracking Exception Candidates]]
- [[Dupes Monitoring and Resolving Duplicates]] (Will be updated by database specialist)
- It is the solemn responsibility of EVDU to find articles that use Vote Smart data and share them immediately with the relevant research division, National Director, and with Development and Communications.
- Additionally, EVDU should have access to Google Analytics to understand and communicate and tedency or changes in the behavior of users on the Vote Smart website or any other programs.
: +Updating Contact Information and Biographical Information , , finding zip codes, email addresses, campaign websites
Updating Biographies for Candidates- Check Offices Tab and Elections Tab- Add Candidacies (if they lost the election) and Office Information under Political Experience if it is not already there. Go to Campaign website(s) and office website(s) to find Biographical Information. Follow Bio Guidelines
[[Resources Resources]]
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