37 posts in "Tag: ballot design"
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Solving the double vote problem in New York State through design
Overvotes, double votes and other challenges of switching from lever machines to paper ballots.
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Flash usability testing for double votes in New York
Flash testing gathered data about how voters mark ballots where the same candidate can appear on more than one party line.
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Why is it so hard to produce a usable, well-designed ballot?
Although the butterfly ballot became the emblem for bad ballot design, we continue to see ballot design problems
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Testing ballots: Real names or fictional? Direct how to vote or not?
Why fictional-but-realistic ballots work best for usability testing.
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Text on the left or right – which works better?
A usability test compared two ballots to see which one worked better for voters.
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