15 posts in "Category: Best practices"
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Polling place signage toolkit
Signage guidelines and ready-to-use templates for election offices of all sizes.
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Ballot Order: Randomization and rotation
These best practices outline the options to produce randomness, drawing from political science research and examples across the country.
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How to design vote by mail envelopes for USPS
This booklet covers the elements you'll need to send your vote by mail envelopes through USPS.
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Designing Ranked Choice Voting voter education
Guidelines for designing voter education that supports voters learn about a new method of voting.
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Translating for elections
This quick guide contains a few best practices to consider in an internal civic translation process.
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Hiring a language access coordinator
A language access quick guide to hiring one of the most critical contributor’s to your department’s language access plan.
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Working with translation vendors in elections
Guidance on how to choose a translation vendor, and how to work with them.
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Designing Ranked Choice Voting Ballots
Guidelines for Ranked Choice Voting ballot layout and design.
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Displaying Ranked Choice Voting election results
Guidelines to help election officials and news organizations create RCV results displays on their websites.
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Accessible Ranked Choice Voting ballots
These guidelines explain how a successful accessible RCV ballot works for voters with disabilities. Many are being adopted for new accessible RCV systems.
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Designing Ranked Choice Voting results displays in news articles
Best practices for newspapers and media outlets of any size to use when designing RCV results displays.
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Modernizing voter registration with automatic voter registration
Guidelines for writing clear voter registration instructions and questions in Department of Motor Vehicle (and other agency) transactions.
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Designing election websites
A well designed website gives voters the information they need to become informed and confident voters. It can be a...
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Designing manuals for poll workers
3 resources to help you write and design manuals that make it easy for poll workers to find information, even in stressful situations.
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Conducting multilingual usability testing
This workbook will help you through the process of testing materials in multiple languages, and provide you with tools to run usability testing from pre-planning...
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