Strand Election Management System

The STRAND Election Management system is tried and tested software that is in regular use in 25% of local authorities in the UK.

Having been developed over 14 years to include all of the features demanded by today's legislation and over burdened Electoral Officers, STRAND offer the pinnacle in Electoral software.

With the SEMS system, you are in complete control - empowered by the best in software technology...

Check out some of the many features of the Election Management system:

DETAILED & EASILY ACCESSED DATA BASE RECORDS
Relational Databases reduce duplicate information, for Candidates, Agents, Staff and Polling Stations.

ALL REPORTS PRODUCED
All required reports and many management reports are included as standard.

LETTERS & NOTICES PRODUCED VIA YOUR WORD PROCESSOR
Supports MS Word 97, 2000 (Service Pack 1) and Word XP enabling easy creation of high quality outputs that are fully customisable to your requirements.

PARLIAMENTARY/EURO CLAIM MODULE
Automated production of E1,2 & 3 plus Annexes.

ELECTION EXPENSES MODULE (INCLUDING PARLIAMENTARY)
Calculates cost of election by overheads, plus parish recharging.

AUTOMATED STAFF APPOINTMENT
Ability to allocate staff using previous elections information and home location. Depth of data builds as more elections are run.

AUTOMATED STAFF PAYMENT FACILITIES
Includes production runs for Cheques and P528's.

PREVIOUS STAFF
Allows continual and automatic update of staff database.

UNCONTESTED ELECTIONS
All aspects of uncontested elections controlled from a single program.

CONCURRENT ELECTION FACILITIES
Combined Elections are run together for simplicity.

TIME TABLING
Includes automated calculation of timetables & sampling programs.

MOVEMENT LETTERS
All rolling registration documents provided by the system, and built in database of neighbouring LA's.

MANAGEMENT DETAILS AVAILABLE AT ALL STAGES
User has total control over all system output programs.

MENU DRIVEN
Easy to use structure of menus that cascade to show grouped items under logical headings. Context sensitive right click menus that offer the correct choices for the screen being used.

DATA SECURITY
5 levels of user logins built into the system. Plus user controlled access.

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
Including passwords, archiving and the editing of menus.

ON-LINE RESULTS DISPLAYS
Automated input allows 'on the night' service including displays.

LARGE CUSTOMER BASE
STRAND has the confidence of over 110 local authorities.

ACTIVE USER GROUP
Meets Annually.

HOME OFFICE APPROVED FOR GRANT PURPOSES
Up to 50% of software cost.

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You may also download this information in a PDF file by clicking on this link: Download Election Management Information Sheet in zip format

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