1. It’s Election Day, do you know where your ballot is?

    A mail ballot goes through a lot by the time an election is certified. Many hands touch the ballot, taking it from an election office, through the postal service, to a voter’s home, and then back again. A quick and easy way to keep track of a ballot as it travels and make sure it […]

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  2. Voting Outside the Polling Place

    Most states offer at least one method for any eligible voter to cast a ballot before Election Day. While some states provide early in-person voting, this webpage addresses absentee voting and all-mail voting.

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  3. Sample Vote By Mail Request Envelope

    A sample vote-by-mail ballot request envelope. You can also find a downloadable/editable version here: https://civicdesign.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/VBM_Request_Envelope_templateFolder.zip

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  4. Sample Vote By Mail Request Form

    A sample vote-by-mail ballot request form. You can also find an editable/downloadable form here: https://civicdesign.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/VBMBallotApplicationTemplate_v3.1_fillablefriendly.docx

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  5. Best Practices for Mail Screening and Handling Processes

    The Best Practices for Mail Screening and Handling guide is designed to provide mail center managers, their supervisors, and an organization’s security personnel a framework for understanding and mitigating risks posed to the organization by the mail and packages it receives and delivers on a daily basis. A wide range of potential threats can be […]

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  6. MOAA Survey: High Marks from Military Absentee Voters, but Spouses Face Challenges, and Most Want Online Voting

    A new survey of nearly 3,000 active-duty servicemembers, veterans and others in the military community showed higher levels of election participation than their civilian counterparts and confidence in the absentee voting process, but a wide engagement gap between active-duty members and their spouses. Only about 27 percent of military spouses who responded to the survey […]

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