{"id":1494,"date":"2022-08-09T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/vtools\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=1494"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:35:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:35:58","slug":"nominations-tool-flow-chart","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/vtools\/blog\/kb\/nominations-tool-flow-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominations Tool &#8211; Process Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>vTools Nominations was created for IEEE volunteers to help them select eligible candidates to be on the ballot for an upcoming election. The images below show the workflow and explanation of activities when a new nominations process is started in the tool.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, this tool is only available for Sections and Chapters Nomination and Petition process. Support for other units will be added in the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> the below images are also available to view in the <a href=\"https:\/\/nominations.vtools.ieee.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nominations<\/a> tool itself.<\/p>\n<p>This chart shows an overview of the flow of activity in the tool:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/vtools\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Nominations_Chart.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1493 \" src=\"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/vtools\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Nominations_Chart.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1070\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/vtools\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Nominations_Chart.png 1908w, https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/vtools\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Nominations_Chart-1024x765.png 1024w, https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/vtools\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Nominations_Chart-768x574.png 768w, https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/vtools\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Nominations_Chart-1536x1148.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1070px) 100vw, 1070px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This chart shows a more comprehensive overview and description of the stages in the process:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/vtools\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Nominations_Chart2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1495 \" src=\"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/vtools\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Nominations_Chart2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1060\" height=\"679\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>vTools Nominations was created for IEEE volunteers to help them select eligible candidates to be on the ballot for an upcoming election. The images below show the workflow and explanation of activities when a new nominations process is started in the tool.<br \/>\nCurrently, this tool is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[119,103],"kbtag":[],"class_list":["post-1494","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-nominations","kbtopic-vtools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/vtools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/vtools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/vtools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/vtools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/vtools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/vtools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/vtools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/vtools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.ieee.org\/vtools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}