It is very easy to arrange for staff to visit another local or national management body, and many EMBs have been able to send key staff on secondments for a couple of weeks or so to EMBs in other countries. This is an effective way to expose EMB staff to different ways of election organisation, to exchange ideas, and to see how problems are solved in other countries or jurisdictions.
Secondments and exchange visits like this are increasingly taking place on an international basis. Good ideas are rapidly being transferred around the world. Exchange visits benefit both sides - the person visiting another electoral manager's office will bring new ideas and different approaches and thus the office being visited will have the benefit of a different perspective. Exchange visits will also benefit the increasing international interest in forming links with communities in different countries.
