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Content Tagged ‘ballot design’

Post: Questions to ask while designing a ballot: A checklist for usable ballots

Post: Ensuring that voters verify their ballot needs a holistic approach

Post: The tiny journey of marking and casting a ballot

Post: Put navigation instructions where voters need them

Post: Ballot marking devices make voting universal

Post: Don’t legislate ballot design (there’s a better way to improve ballots)

Post: Typography makes ballots easy to read

Post: You see a provisional ballot, voters see their ballot

Post: Why not just use pens to mark a ballot?

Example: Updated ballot standards for Virginia

Post: Answering voters’ questions: what’s on the ballot, and the mechanics of voting

Topics: Ranked choice voting

Post: A month of presentations

Example: Instructions on vote-by-mail ballots build confidence in Arapahoe County

Post: Participating in Participatory Budgeting

Example: Counting more absentee ballots in Escambia County, Florida

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