Strategic planning is important becuase it will help to achieve the effective use of scarce resources - human, financial and material.
Planning is crucial to undertaking any major electoral process and is a key responsibility.
It is relevant to all electoral managers, whether they are in charge of a national electoral commission or a polling site. A clear written statement of process for implementing the responsibilities of the electoral manager should be prepared. The world is awash with mission statements, value statements, short and long term plans, strategies and programmes. On occasions it seems that organisations compete with one another to provide ever more complex plans and statements. The amount of notice taken of these plans and statements may be in inverse proportion to their length.