Add a vote/comment after ballot is closed
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This article is relevant for:
Committee Manager, PC Secretary & support teams
Please note
- Committee Manager (CM), Twinned Committee Manager (Twinned CM), Committee Manager Support Team (CM Support Team) roles refer to technical committees and their sub-committees only.
- Secretary, Twinned Secretary, Secretary/Convenor Support Team roles refer to Working Groups (WG), Policy committees, and Governance committees.
Add a vote/comment after the ballot has been closed
You can re-open a Committee internal ballot that has closed in order to cast a last minute vote/comment on behalf of a NSB or WG expert. To do this, you need to first manually re-open the ballot, then cast the vote, then manually close the ballot again.
Please note
Re-opening and closing a ballot will not send any notifications to the audience.
1 Re-open the ballot
Select Edit from the Metadata functions menu (little blue arrow next to the Metadata heading)
On the next screen, set the status field to Open and then click Submit:
2 Cast the vote/Submit a comment
From the information tab, click on Cast vote as/ Submit comment and enter the vote/comment as explained in the previous section.
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For more information on how to cast a vote/Submit a comment on behalf of an NSB, please refer to the article Cast a vote/Submit a comment on behalf of someone else (see link to the article at the bottom of the page)
3 Close the ballot
Repeat Step 1 and change the Status field to Closed.