Field Guides to Ensuring Voter Intent

Design guidelines that election officials can really use, based on solid research and best practices.

Field Guide 1 cover- Designing usable ballots

Vol. 1

Writing instructions voters understand

Field Guide 3 cover- Testing ballots for usabiltity

Vol. 3

Effective poll worker materials

Vol. 5

Choosing how to communicate with voters

Vol. 6

Designing voter education booklets and flyers

Vol. 7

Designing election department websites

Vol. 8

Guiding voters through the polling place

Vol. 9

Creating accessible online information

Vol. 10

Creating forms that help voters take action

Vol. 101

Designing a voter guide to an election

Vol. 102

Designing materials for vote centers and polling places

Vol. 103

Designing vote by mail envelopes

Vol. 105

Creating accessible forms for print + PDF

Vol. 106

Designing manuals for poll workers

Vol. 107

Conducting multilingual usability testing

Vol. 108

How to: Design impactful voter education materials

About the Field Guide Series

There have been excellent ballot design guidelines around since mid-2007 when the U.S. Election Assistance Commission published AIGA Design For Democracy’s work in its report, Effective Designs for the Administration of Federal Elections. Everyone involved in that project quickly figured out that, as juicy as the design specs were in that report, they needed to be boiled down to essentials that local election officials could easily act on within the constraints they had. Field Guides To Ensuring Voter Intent were inspired by that need. — Dana Chisnell, Field Guides Editor