A visual inventory of the supplies needed at each station.
Election Officials around the country create tools to show election workers the supplies they need on Election Day. Many of these tools use icons or line drawings in a map or layout diagram. We took these great ideas and put them in a format for you and your election workers.
The goal of the supplies placemat is to show election workers what supplies they need and when. This tool relies on a library of icons to help workers identify the supplies, tell them where to find each item, and where the supplies go when they need to be used.
First, download the templates:
You can get more icons at http://electiontools.org/tool/civic-icons-and-images/.
We made the templates to be color-coded to each role in a polling place.
When you select colors for the supplies placemat, use the same colors in other election worker tools or materials for the same role. For example, make all materials for the supervisor clerks green. Then when supervisor clerks see green, they will know this content is for them.
Look in the master slides in the PowerPoint template to find layouts with other colors.
The placemats are designed for paper that is 8.5×11-inches (letter size). You can print on back and front to save paper and keep costs down. We recommend laminating these placemats and using them with a dry-erase marker. Election workers can use the dry-erase marker to check off the boxes next to the supplies to make sure they can account for all supplies. Workers can use the same placemats each day the vote center is open.