14 posts in "Yearly Archives: 2020"
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What to do about results: set expectations with explanations
Communications tips to help voters understand election results reporting
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Designing ballot cure forms that invite voters to act
What we learned from testing different styles of cure forms with voters.
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Tips for the home stretch: Communicating with voters
3 tips for easy ways to answer voter questions: voting location maps, email auto-responses, drop box checklists
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Helping voters make healthy choices
Election information plus guidance from public health experts helps voters make healthy voting choices.
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An invitation to certainty, in an uncertain time
Communications tips for helping voters cure a problem with their mail-in or absentee ballot.
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Designing restoration of rights information
Information about voting rights after prison is a key to returning citizens voting.
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Language access helps with acculturation
Getting access to the ballot and being an informed voter takes more than translation.
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Preparing to mail ballots
Design tips for making vote-by-mail envelopes U.S. Postal Service friendly.
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Scaling-up voting by mail for the 2020 elections
Seven questions to ask to help you make critical decisions (and a tool kit to help you get started)
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An invitation to redistricting
What happens when citizens lead the design of an application for their own effort to redraw district lines.
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Small changes make a big difference in vote-by-mail
Easy ways to make vote-at-home envelopes work better for voters (and the post office.)
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Questions to ask while designing a ballot: A checklist for usable ballots
8 questions to ask when reviewing a ballot with a downloadable checklist
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Experiences of new citizens in American civic life
There’s a wide gap between what it takes to pass a civics test and what you need to know to be an informed voter.
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Using your website to fight misinformation
Quick ways to make your website the source of trustworthy, accurate, and useful information about voting and elections.
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