13 posts in "Tag: vote by mail"
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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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The USPS wants your help to improve ballot processing
Send samples of your ballot materials to USPS. It helps you catch errors, and helps USPS improve vote by mail processes for election offices everywhere.
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Preparing to mail ballots
Design tips for making vote-by-mail envelopes U.S. Postal Service friendly.
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Scaling-up voting by mail for the 2020 elections
Seven questions to ask to help you make critical decisions (and a tool kit to help you get started)
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Toolkit: Designing materials for vote by mail
We have materials to support any state or county scaling up their vote-by-mail. In this toolkit, you’ll find templates and...
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Small changes make a big difference in vote-by-mail
Easy ways to make vote-at-home envelopes work better for voters (and the post office.)
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Designing vote by mail envelopes
Learn how to design a vote at home envelope package that works for USPS, state legal requirements, and plain language and design recommendations.
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Voting in your pajamas is great. Now let’s make sure everyone can do it.
We want voting to be easy. But as we move to voting at home, let's not leave people with disabilities behind
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Helping vote-by-mail ballots make their way to the voter and back again
How to help vote-by-mail ballots get to voters and back to the elections office.
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Vote by mail
Consistent, usable designs for vote-at-home envelopes and instructions With support from the James Irvine Foundation, Democracy Fund, and the Hewlett Foundation
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Instructions on vote-by-mail ballots build confidence in Arapahoe County
How can good voter instructions reduce the workload of election judges during election season? In Arapahoe County, Colorado, the right...
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Counting more absentee ballots in Escambia County, Florida
Can updating the instructions and forms for returning absentee ballots make a difference to how many of those ballots actually...
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Absentee ballot instructions in Minnesota
In 2008, the election for Senator from Minnesota between Al Franken and Norm Coleman was decided only after a lengthy...
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