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How Design Can Save Democracy
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/25/opinion/20080825-ballot.html

Description:
"Earlier this year [2008], the United States Election Assistance Commission distributed guidelines [for ballots] created by professional designers to 6,000 local election officials. ... This interactive feature identifies common design problems found on optical-scan ballots from previous presidential elections and shows ways to improve clarity and vote accuracy based on the commission’s new guidelines." Presented by two member of the AIGA (formerly the American Institute of Graphic Arts). From The New York Times.

LII Topics: Politics, Voting

Author:
Grefé, Richard; Hewitt, Jessica Friedman

Publisher:
The New York Times

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LII Database Information:
Record 26878 created by Maria Brandt on 09/09/2008
Last modification on 09/15/2008
Published: 09/24/2008  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26878

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