Fiona Anderson is a Special Projects Officer in the council鈥檚 Governance and Law Team, but during elections she takes on another important role, dealing with postal votes.
Fiona said: 鈥淲e work closely with the Electoral Registration Office in Campbeltown and issue postal voting packs to around 12,000 people.
鈥淚n the weeks running up to the election day we appoint a team of staff who start opening the postal votes returned to us, and follow the strict process of verifying the signatures and dates of birth before the ballot papers can be secured in the ballot boxes, ready to be counted with the other ballot papers after the election.
鈥淥ut of the 12,000 packs that we send out we usually receive approximately 80% back, so it鈥檚 a lengthy process.
鈥淲e all work well together though and, believe it or not, I really enjoy election time!鈥