54 posts in "Tag: communicating with voters"
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Tips for the home stretch: Communicating with voters
3 tips for easy ways to answer voter questions: voting location maps, email auto-responses, drop box checklists
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Helping voters make healthy choices
Election information plus guidance from public health experts helps voters make healthy voting choices.
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An invitation to certainty, in an uncertain time
Communications tips for helping voters cure a problem with their mail-in or absentee ballot.
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An invitation to redistricting
What happens when citizens lead the design of an application for their own effort to redraw district lines.
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Introducing ranked-choice voting in the City of St. Louis Park
When the City Council in St. Louis Park, Minnesota adopted ranked-choice voting (RCV) for their city elections, City Clerk Melissa...
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A form is a conversation
In a world where we have to collect information directly from people, there must be forms. Including voter registration forms.
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Streamlining and nudging in voter registration
How to help would-be voters answer the question "Do you want to register to vote?" easily and accurately.
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How to make videos accessible to people with disabilities
How do you make sure that videos are accessible to people with disabilities?
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Demystifying the mechanics of voting with a pocket guide
We had learned through research about the challenges that voters face in getting and understanding information about elections that there...
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Answering voters’ questions: what’s on the ballot, and the mechanics of voting
An interactive practice ballot is a secret weapon. When people get the chance to see what the ballot looks like, check out what contests and...
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Ranked choice voting
Best practices for ballot design, instructions, and election results reporting for ranked choice contests. Project partners: Ranked Choice Voting Resource Center and Fair Vote
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Minnesota gets new polling place signage with help from design students
What’s better than hearing about a successful collaboration between election administrators and designers? A project that brought together the City...
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Messages and notices to help voters be well informed
Connecting voters with nonpartisan local voter guides for informed voting Funded by Knight Foundation Project partners: e.thePeople, DemocracyWorks
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Preparing for write-ins
Most voters probably don’t know how write-ins work. Put information about it on your website.
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