Tag: Election Management
Election Management
Ballot Drop Box Implementation
Ballot drop boxes offer a secure, convenient alternative for voters to cast their completed mail ballots. They save voters money in jurisdictions where return postage is not prepaid, and they can reduce costs for election authorities that pay postage.
Jun 3, 2026
Election Management
Ballot Proofing: Ensuring Accuracy in Elections
Election administration requires precision and accuracy. It all begins with creating accurate ballots. Ballot proofing, the process of ensuring accurate ballots, deserves a high degree of attention.
May 29, 2026
Election Audits
Exploring Election Audits Series
The Elections Group’s Exploring Election Audits Series will help election officials identify principles, standards and audit best practices that apply to the entire election administration process – not just voting machines and tabulation equipment.
Mar 10, 2026
Accelerating Excellence
Creating an Election Academy: Manual and Materials
This manual and materials are designed to help you start, run and repeat an election academy—an election education course—in your jurisdiction. An election academy is a hands-on course designed to provide participants with information on how election officials prepare for and conduct elections in their jurisdiction.
Sep 26, 2025
Election Management
60-Minute Toolkit for Emergency Readiness
The provided resources, the “Emergency Readiness Toolkit” and the “Emergency Readiness Guide,” offer a comprehensive framework for election officials to prepare for and respond to various crises. The Toolkit includes […]
Sep 25, 2025
Election Management
Election Learning Lab
Free, self-paced online courses to help election professionals enhance their skills in support of efficient, safe and transparent elections
Sep 22, 2025
Accelerating Excellence
Mapping and Modeling Best Practices in Election Certification and Training Programs
We examined election workforce training program design and governance as well as course content and instructional design and rated specific practices according to how critical they are to a successful training program.
Apr 24, 2025
Election Management
Election Debrief Handbook
The Election Debrief Handbook is designed to help election officials lead their teams through debriefs of the most recent election. Soon after the election — when election workers and officials […]
Nov 21, 2024
Election Management
Guidance for Religious Leaders at the Polls
Religious leaders across the country are lifting their voices to call for a free, fair, and peaceful election season. Many of them are preparing to serve as “poll chaplains” or […]
Nov 1, 2024
Communications
Mail Ballot Processing Signs, Posters and Handouts
Boost transparency and understanding with new mail ballot processing area signs, posters and handouts. They’re designed to make it easier for observers, temporary workers and newer staff to follow individual steps and the entire process.
Oct 3, 2024