CCD Remote Ballot Marking Systems
How do we make remote ballot markign systems both secure and accessibile?
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CCD Language Access
Meeting voters’ language accessibility needs.
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CCD Field Guides
Design guidelines that election officials can really use, base on solid research and best practices.
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ADA Checklist for Polling Places
All polling places should be surveyed to ensure compliance with the ADA. The official DOJ checklist provides you with the architectural features and provisions to assess.
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Voter Guides: Planning for Multiple Languages
Whether you are creating a new language program, adding an additional language, or simply revisiting your existing materials, this guide can provide insight in serving limited-English proficiency communities.
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Report on Polling Place Accessibility
GAO examined a nongeneralizable sample of 178 polling places during early in-person voting and on Election Day 2016. At these polling places, GAO examined a number of features outside and inside the voting area. Outside the voting area, GAO was able to examine features at all 178 polling places and found that 60 percent (107) […]
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Voices of Democracy: The state of language accessibility in California’s 2016 elections
A new report finds that during the November 2016 election California election officials met and exceeded federal requirements in Section 203 of the federal Voting Rights Act related to providing translated ballots and bilingual poll workers to serve minority language communities.
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Voters with Disabilities: Observations on Polling Place Accessibility and Related Federal Guidance
Per a Congressional request, the GAO examined access for people with disabilities at early voting and Election Day polling locations for the 2016 general election. Of the 178 polling places observed, 60 percent had one or more potential impediments outside the locations, such as steep ramps outside buildings, lack of signage for accessible paths, and […]
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Ballot Measure Readability Scores (2017)
In examining 27 ballot questions in 2017, the average ballot question required a graduate school-level of education to read and comprehend.
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Improving the Voter Experience
This report focuses on progress made on studying lines at polling places and tools can be used to measure and mitigate them.
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