What is this Working Party Doing?

Last year the Executive Committee took on the major task of re-writing the constitution to make it shorter and easier to read. A lot of detail was taken out so that the Union was able to respond to the needs and desires of students without the students having to learn a lot of procedural details in order to be heard.

That constitution was agreed by the last Annual General Meeting.

A lot of the things which were taken out of the Constitution are still important, just not neccessarily as part of that document, which is the governing document of the Union. The Union is now going through a process of reviewing all of those elements which were not included in the revised constitution.

In order to do this the Union has set up a working party consisting of sabbatical officers and some staff. The group will come up with a range of operational recommendations and operational policies, which will go to the Executive Committee for their consideration.

Wednesday 30 April 2008

Election Regulations

VOTING SYSTEM

The group could not agree on a voting system, with some of the group favouring Single Transferable Vote and some prefering the First Past the Post system.

The following was agreed:

The timetable for elections for Executive Committee, Union Council and Halls committees would be determined by the Executive Committee before the end of June each year.

For elections to the Executive Committee:

The elections will be held in Semester 2

Each year a Candidates Handbook will be produced, in advance of the start of the nomination process.

Each candidate will be required to submit a manifesto of no more than 300 words.

Each candidate will be given the opportunity of filming a video manifesto, which will be a single take with no editing, effects or additional comentary.

Any complaint by or about a candidate must be resolved by the Election Supervisor before counting votes begins.

Votes will normally be counted the day after polling closes.

Each candidate will have the right to nominate one observer to the count.

Following the count, any complaints about the count must be submitted within 5 days of the count.
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