16 posts in "Tag: poll workers and polling places"
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Help voters navigate the polling place with better signage
Good signage makes voting easier for everyone. Our new toolkit shows best practices and templates for polling place signage.
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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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Public audit sign templates
Customizable signs to guide staff, observers, and the public during a hand count audit.
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Conversation starters to improve your poll worker training
Our latest research led to a set of conversation starters — practical questions that election offices can use to reflect on and improve their poll...
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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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Design manuals that empower poll workers on Election Day
We’ve published three resources for designing manuals for poll workers: a best practice guide, a Word template and a How-to-use Word guide.
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Helping poll workers solve problems quickly with a What-If guide
What happens when poll workers are faced with voters with unusual problems? There’s no way to prepare for every possible...
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Design, test, repeat: designing a new ballot record form
Creating a new form - with iteration and testing - that helps poll workers account for ballots accurately.
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Designing materials for vote centers and polling places
It is common practice to train the people who will work the polls on Election Day, and election officials to...
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Making great vote center and polling place materials
Designing job aids and other materials for election workers With support from the James Irvine Foundation
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Poll workers and empowerment
How do you get poll workers with a range of attitudes to deliver a safe, secure, free, and open election for you? Train them. Test them....
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Strategies for recruiting poll workers
Tips from recent conversations with election officials from California to Colorado to Indiana to Virginia
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A month of presentations
A month of sharing what we've learned about civic design with election officials and UX designers
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Civic designing: election security
You might not think of design and security together, but we know that elections are secure (or not) by design.
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Poll workers and election integrity
How interactions between poll workers, technology, and other election materials can support security in elections Funded by Nationals Science Foundation Project partners: Election jurisdictions from...
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Day in the life of a poll worker 2014
The real test of an election administration is what happens when feelings run high, or when things go wrong.
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