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As simple as highway signs may appear to be, lengthy studies of color, type size and arrangement, and materials have been completed to ensure their clarity and ease of use. Airport signs rely on similar information design principles to effectively communicate to international audiences. The design of an airplane safety  \ncard is critical; even the design of the nutrition label, now required on all food packaging, has helped present complex information clearly and allowed people to gain a better understanding of their diet. In these examples, effective information design is critical to their success.  \nElection officials, The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) and the Design for Democracy team (as contractor to the EAC) share the same objective in terms of developing a means for achieving a voting experience that attracts citizens to vote; makes the choice of candidates and issues relatively easy; and ensures that voters cast their votes with confidence that they have made the right choice and that it has been registered properly. The benefit of these guidelines for the election official is that they draw on professional information design experience, research, testing, and evaluation to provide examples of approaches that are likely to be most successful. To this extent they complement and support the challenges election officials face.  \nBest practices for the design of election materials  \nIn 2005, the EAC awarded Design for Democracy (contractor) a research and design contract to identify a series of voluntary best practices for voter information materials and ballots.  \nThe best practices specified in this document support election reform requirements for ballot design and publicly posted voting information—as mandated by sections 241(b)(2) and 302(b) of the 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA) . These sections include:  \n— Ballot designs for elections for Federal office.  \n— Public posting of sample ballots on Election Day.  \n— Public posting of election date and hours on Election Day.  \n— Public posting of voting instructions, including for provisional ballots, on Election Day.  \n— Public posting of instructions for first-time voters and mail-in registrants on Election Day.  \n— Public posting of voting rights, including provisional ballot rights, official contacts for suspected rights violations, and legislative information on misrepresentation and fraud on Election Day.  \nThe best practice samples shown in sections 2 through 5 are based on 2005 Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines, research findings, and information design principles.  \nOne size does not fit all when it comes to the electoral proces","cbCair3lxh7r2aHG","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCair3lxh7r2aHG","pdf",54775,8,"English","# 1 Introduction\n## The role of design in election materials\n## Best practices for the design of election materials\n## High-level recommendations\n## An election official’s viewpoint\n## Methodology\n## How to use this document\n# 2 Voter information materials\n## Planning process\n## Design: one language (English)\n## Design: two languages (English/Spanish)\n## Samples: two languages (English/Chinese)\n# 3 Optical scan ballots\n## Planning process\n## Design: one language\n## Samples: one language\n## Design: two languages\n## Samples: two languages\n# 4 Full-face DRE ballots\n## Planning process\n## Design\n## Samples\n# 5 Rolling DRE ballots\n## Planning process\n## Voting process\n## Design templates\n# 6 Research report: Nebraska pilot test\n# 7 Research report: Nine research events\n# 8 Appendix","[{\"question\":\"Why is design important for election materials?\",\"answer\":\"Effective information design is critical because it ensures usability, clarity, and accuracy when communicating complicated ideas to voters. 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