Prior requirements
1.For voting eligibility, the member should be a Life Member and should have enrolled into AMPI before December 31st of the previous year of election year.
[For ex: In AMPI Elections 2021-2024 9 (the elections being conducted in 2020) , the member should have enrolled on or before December 31, 2019. The latest eligible voter’s membership number is LM-2644. So for voting the member should have a membership number enrolled earlier or equal to LM-2644.]
2.The annual member shall have the right to vote provided:
(a) He/She became registered member of AMPI on or before 31st December 2019.
(b) His/Her annual membership is valid on the day of voting.
3. Member should have a valid user id, and working password to access the AMPI Website (https://ampi.org.in)
4. Access to internet connectivity and a desktop/laptop.
Nominees:
A list of nominees contesting for Executive Committee is available at https://ampi.org.in/nominee-list/
Voters may visit site and view the contestant details and their campaign.
In any election if there is lesser number of contestants for full strength of Executive Committee or Board of Trustees, then in such instances respective nominees list may not be published for e-voting.
Accessing Website for Voting
For voting, the eligible member must login prior to voting. Please open your favorite browser, and click login from the menu of AMPI Website (https://ampi.org.in)
Enter your login credentials in the space provided (and answer to a question to prove the voter is a human being and not a spam/program.) With correct user credentials, member should be able to login successful.
After login, the member may access the eBallot on the AMPI Home menu (on the right hand side panel)
Or members can directly access the eBallot – Executive Committee at https://ampi.org.in/eballot-executive-committee/ (Kindly note there is no eBallot for BoT in this Elections 2021-24). If you have not logged in already, website will redirect you to login page and on successful login will again take you to the eBallot page.
eBallot Page
Once the member has opened the eBallot page on the website, he can clearly see the list of contestants with their campaign and a ‘VOTE’ button to select that contestant. Also, a ‘Submit this Ballot Paper’ is available at end of the contestants list.
View Campaign
If member want to view the contestant campaign, he can click on the view campaign icon. A popup with contestant’s campaign will be displayed with a ‘Close’ button. Click on ‘Close’ button to return back to eBallot.
Voting
Now member can click on VOTE button to select their favorite candidate. Once VOTE button is clicked, the candidate details get highlighted and the display font becomes bold with a tag marked as SELECTED. Also the VOTE button will become CLEAR button
Member can continue voting as many candidates as he likes up to a maximum of 15 in case of Executive Committee.
Just in case the member wishes to de-select candidate, he can click on CLEAR button. Website will respond you to confirm your action. On answering OK/YES, the particular candidate will be de-selected and the button will become VOTE button again.
Submitting the eBallot
After selecting the favorite candidates for voting, member can click on ‘Submit this Ballot Paper’. AMPI website will respond with a dialog box confirm his voting as below.
Now the member can click on NO button in case of any doubt or want to change the selection and review the eBallot. Finally the member can submit the eBallot for submission and confirm by clicking on YES button.
Now the eBallot will be sent to the website. AMPI website will take a few moments to save the eBallot to server and respond with a success status page.
In case of any error/failure to save/record the eBallot by server, it will return an error message appropriately. Member can re-try voting again visiting eBallot page or choose to vote later.
How to contact
In case the member has difficulty while loging to AMPI website accessing eBallot or voting, he may contact or write to the Election Officer (eo@ampi.org.in) or Secretary (secretary@ampi.org.in)