Vote in Discovery’s Trustee Elections
Every year you the Discovery volunteers get to vote for the Trustee board. Trustees oversee the work of Discovery & have a meaningful say in the direction of Discovery and the impact it has on the local community so this is your chance to have a say in who should help run Discovery.
The elections will be taking place online and this blog will outline how you register to vote for the elections and who is standing.
How to vote
Voting for the Trustee positions starts today Tuesday 23rd April and will shut 10am Friday 3rd May.
We are fortunate that this year the Swansea Students Union are supporting Discovery by running the elections for student Trustees online for us. Below is how you get to register to vote in the elections. You must log in into the Swansea Students Union website as either a student (if you are a Swansea University student volunteer) or a Guest (if you are a Discovery volunteer who is not a Swansea University student). For those who have voted in society elections this is very similar.
This scribe is very handy in showing you how to vote.
The trustee elections are listed under Discovery AGM.
We have outlined how to vote below:
To get ready to vote as a Student:
- Log in as a student on the Students’ Union website using your @swansea.ac.uk account
- Use the drop down menu in the top right-hand corner of the screen to search for ‘Discovery AGM’
- Select ‘Discovery AGM’ under organisations
- If you are registering for a new account you will have to click on the link sent to your email to validate it before you can log in
- You should now be ready to vote in the election!
To get ready to vote as a Guest:
- Go to the Students’ Union website login screen, and select ‘Register New Account’
- Fill in your details to create new a Guest Account
- Once a Guest Account has been created, log in as guest using the drop-down menu in the top right-hand corner of the screen
- Use the same drop down menu and search for ‘Discovery AGM’
- Select ‘Discovery AGM’ under organisations
- You should now be ready to vote in the election!
To vote in the election once the voting goes live at 10am on Tuesday 23rd April
- Ensure you are logged in on the Students’ Union website
- Use the drop down menu in the top right-hand corner of the screen to search for ‘Discovery AGM’
- Select ‘Discovery AGM’ under organisations
- Scroll down and click the blue elections button and proceed to vote in the election!
Who is standing
These are the positions in the election:- President, Treasurer, Secretary and Non Portfolio Trustee.
In each of the positions you will see this: Re-Open Nominations or ‘RON. This is a democratic mechanism to allow voters to choose not to elect any of the candidates in the election. Basically if you do not want to vote for any of the candidates then vote for Re-Open Nominations.
To see all the candidates for each position please check out this guide to elections:
If you have any issues around registering to vote please do let us know by emailing us.
Thanks
The Discovery Team