BallotPoint Election Services
The Problem
How confident are you that your next election can withstand a challenge?
Here’s the Issue — LMRDA compliance is tricky…
No matter how diligent your team may be, hundreds of details can trip you up during an election.
Is it really possible to account for and safeguard every ballot — from printing and mailing though sorting and tally — all while guaranteeing voter secrecy?
Can you prove that you complied with the LMRDA in all the areas outlined by OLMS guidelines: The right to vote by secret ballot? Adequate safeguards and controls? Election observation and transparency? Accountability and accuracy?
If you are faced with a DOL investigation, you have to do just that – prove, without question, that your officer election fully complied with OLMS guidelines and Title IV of the LMRDA.
The Department of Labor has tightened down on union compliance requirements in many areas over the past few years. Officer elections are no exception. What were acceptable election practices a few years ago may no longer satisfy the DOL.
But the real problem isn’t the LMRDA requirements or the Department of Labor.
It’s balloting by mail.
Frankly, the odds are not good that your next mail-ballot election will fully comply with the LMRDA.
- Too many complicated procedures
- Too many steps to coordinate
- Too many ways to fail
More than 1,000 mail-ballot officer elections have been investigated for LMRDA violations in the past eight years.
During the same time, organizations using BallotPoint conducted over 1,800 elections and cast more than 800,000 votes — without a single successful election challenge.
What happens if your next election is challenged?
Any candidate or voter can file a challenge. It is up to your election officials to prove that the challenge is without merit.
No single element can make a balloting system secure, confidential, reliable, and accurate; system integrity can only be guaranteed through the combination of intent, policy, procedure, and technical safeguards.
With BallotPoint, an overturned election is a risk that you never have to face.
BallotPoint Election Services:
- Is the only complete election solution specifically designed to ensure LMRDA compliance.
- Provides you with safeguards to ensure the secrecy, integrity, transparency, accountability, and accuracy of your elections in accordance with the OLMS election guidelines.
- Protects your elections from intentional misconduct and simple human error.
- Provides you with a tested, proven, and accepted process that is guaranteed.