54 posts in "Tag: communicating with voters"
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Designing for democracy: Once you get started, it’s hard to stop
Taking the first step to a new design can be hard, but it can become addictive. (FOCE Webinar)
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Dramatic differences in voter guides
Small changes can add up to big differences. Even changing a few pages of a voter guide can improve information for voters.
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Designing a voter guide to an election
In many jurisdictions, election officials send a booklet to registered voters with information about what’s on their ballot and how...
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Voter guides show off best practices in California
California voters get a lot of love from their election officials. Not just one, but two booklets arrive in their mailbox...
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Beautiful tools for promoting civic engagement
Meet the Election Toolkit, starting with 11 tools to help election officials engage voters, increase turnout, and smooth operations.
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A Voter Bill of Rights in plain language for California
When we started to work on a project to improve voter guides in California, we did not expect the Voter...
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Helping voters get the right primary election ballot in California
Primaries are hard to explain. But writing instructions for voters gets even harder when some parties allow some voters to participate in their Presidential...
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Less can be more in official notices
Tips to make notices, forms, and letters easier for voters to read.
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A better designed tax bill in Grand County, Utah
No one likes paying taxes. But no one said the tax bill had to be impossible to read, either. Even though...
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Election Toolkit
A civic engagement toolkit for election officials: ElectionTools.org Funded by Knight Foundation Project partners: Center for Technology and Civic Life
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Choosing how to communicate with voters
Election officials have more ways to communicate with voters than ever before, from traditional printed booklets, to the web, radio and...
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Designing voter education booklets and flyers
With each election, voters receive flyers and booklets to help them understand the election process, register, find their polling places, and learn what’s...
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Designing election department websites
Voters increasingly rely on online sources for information about where to vote, what’s on the ballot, and when they can vote. But...
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Guiding voters through the polling place
Hurricane Sandy, which struck the East Coast just before Election Day in 2012, delivered lessons and opportunities. Election officials proved just how resourceful...
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A voter bill of rights should be easy to read
A new law in California works to make basic voter rights easier to understand.
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Voter guides and other voter information
Best practices for official voter information guides in California. Funded by Future of California Elections Project partners: League of Women Voters Education Fund of California
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