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Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center Government Innovators Network Wednesday, Sep 7, 2016 #ElectionTools Building a Civic Engagement Toolkit for Election Officials …and advocates, too!
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Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center Government Innovators Network
Wednesday, Sep 7, 2016#ElectionTools
Building a Civic Engagement Toolkit for Election Officials …and advocates, too!
@HillsboroughSOEwww.votehillsborough.org
Conducting open, secure, reliable, and accurate elections for the citizens of Hillsborough County
The Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections
@CivicDesignwww.civicdesign.org
Ensuring voter intent through design
The Center for Civic Design
@HelloCTCLwww.techandciviclife.org
Using technology to improve how local government and communities interact
The Center for Technology & Civic Life
An origin story
THE ELECTION TOOLKIT
Toolkit partners
“How might we better inform voters and increase civic participation before, during and after elections?”
December workshop in Chicago
January workshop in Tampa
Creating tools
Testing content
Launch!
What’s next
Who’s using the tools?
TOOLKIT SUCCESS STORIES
• Shorter lines to vote• Fewer phone calls from confused
voters• A fresh group of poll workers• Avoiding overvotes• Better coordination of election staff• Fewer provisional ballots• Faster election results
Goals and challenges
Inyo County, CA
“If election officials want to disseminate useful information to the greatest number of people, infographics are an obvious choice.”
Arapahoe County, CO
“I think it will work well on Election Day and provide a level of reporting not possible without constant manual reporting of wait times.”
Wake County, NC
“Before using Call-Em-All it took a lot of hours to stay in constant contact with our officials. It consisted of team members making one-on-one contact by phone. And we would also do mass mailings, which would consume a lot of time.”
Hardin County, IA
“Google Docs is continually updated every two to four minutes, so the results are nearly immediate in release.”
Shasta County, CA
“Cartoon strips tell a story in a sequence. They are easy for voters to follow and understand.”
• Sign up and bookmark your favorite tools
• Use the tools and share your experience
• Talk about the tools on Twitter: #ElectionTools
• Suggest ideas or requests for new tools
Get involved
• On Twitter:
#ElectionTools• In your internet browser:
www.electiontools.org
Follow the Toolkit
Let’s talk
QUESTIONS?
Hollie Russon [email protected]@HRGilman
Whitney [email protected]@CivicDesign
Whitney [email protected]@HelloCTCL
Gerri [email protected]@HillsboroughSOE
Thanks, Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center!
@CivicDesign @HelloCTCL @HillsboroughSOE www.electiontools.org #ElectionTools
