Project Based Primary Communications for Short Term Installation
lssue
Risk of not having online communications in place due to the short time lines given to prepare for elections
Solution
To use a cellular wireless platform, allowing for ease of installation and the flexibility of having their cellular hardware available for reuse in later elections.
The Electoral Commission of Queensland is an independent body That monitors and manages council and government elections in the state of Queensland.
As elections dates tend to be set with short notice ECQ’s challenges come from working under such tight dead lines organising premises for voting and counting and finding casual staff to support these processes. ECQ’s other challenge is in the installation of the communications links for each of these locations to tie the voting, counting and reporting processes together. It was decided for the recent council election in May 08 to move from the traditional method of the returning officers faxing the results to ECQ HQ, to the results being provided online.
By using the CDR-780seu and Telstra’s Next G network ECQ were able to have the communications in place within days rather than weeks.
For the first time ECQ were able to post the votes of over 2 Million people for 73 councils directly into ECQ’s central web server allowing for the results to be viewed by the public online.
Peter Jeavons of ECQ says that the exercise was a great success in itself, and as a precursor to the state elections later in the year ECQ now have a game plan that can be used over again when needed.
With ECQ using the CDM-780seu and Telstra’s Next G network solution. ECQ has benefited in both time and cost savings whilst adding additional quality of service to the public, along with now having the ability to reuse the hardware purchased over and over again bringing them additional cost saving rolling on into the future.
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