Tools

The special circumstances surrounding voting during the pandemic present many challenges planning for and running elections.  This page provides links to tools based on the expertise of election administrators, business managers, and social science researchers that can help election administrators plan and conduct elections.

For the most part, these tools were developed by Healthy Elections collaborators and other proven experts in the field to meet either long-standing election administration challenges, or to meet the distinct public health challenges to voting during the pandemic.  If you wish to know more about these tools, including assistance in using them, please contact the tool developers.

Tools for managing mail ballots

New: Updates to the Election Officials' Communications Toolkit from the National Vote At Home Institute.

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Tools for designing healthy in-person polling places

New: A system that allows poll workers to hand out tickets to voters waiting in line.

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Tools for communicating with voters -
the Voting Information Project

From Democracy Works, this project helps voters find information about their elections with collaborative, open-source tools.

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Tools for gathering data

Including a voting time estimator and a timer app from the Center for Tech and Civic Life.

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Data analysis tools

Including a voting system timer and a tool to import, process, and analyze data generated by electronic poll books and scanners, from the University of Rhode Island VOTES team.

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