33 posts in "Tag: ballot design"
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Breaking the ballot: 34 candidates for Senate
Solving a ballot design challenge in California so the layout doesn't encourage voters to make mistakes on their ballots
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Designing usable ballots
We know now from several years of testing ballots all over the U.S. that implementing simple principles of design make it much...
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An updated provisional ballot form for Ohio
We like to say that democracy is a design problem. Much of the work of designing elections happens in government...
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Anywhere Ballot
What if anyone could mark their ballot on any device? Funded by Election Assistance Commission Accessible Voting Technology Initiative through a sub-grant from Information Technology...
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Ballot design and the intersection of constraints
A white paper on ballot simplicity, constraints, and design literacy in election administration.
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Testifying to the PCEA: Voting anywhere, any time, on any device
Drew Davies testified to the Presidential Commission on Election Administration about work to develop the Anywhere Ballot.
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Helping voters who have extraordinary abilities
A talk about the research watching ordinary people with extraordinary abilities who work around their limitations in their daily lives interact with the Anywhere Ballot.
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Rapid, responsive, radical: The Anywhere Ballot is born
The genesis of the Anywhere Ballot project: What if anyone could vote on any device?
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Ballots are made by laws and systems — and miracle workers
A ballot seems like a straightforward thing to design. Then comes something unpredictable.
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A better ballot for New York
In 2010, New York State used paper ballots for the first time. Unfortunately, a NY League of Women Voters survey...
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Usability matters – even with paper ballots
An message on a ballot scanner doesn't explain that an overvote will not be counted - potentially leading to many lost votes.
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Initial observations and insights about ranked choice voting from a flash usability test
Participants voted on the Alameda County demonstration ballot and the Portland, Maine ballot from 2011.
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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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