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Video 101: how to create videos : Election Tools

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A civic engagement toolkit for election officials. Video 101: how to create videos. Instructions for creating short voter-education videos to use on social media or the web. Videos can be a powerful tool for election officials to communicate with the public. They’re compelling, fun, and entertaining. Even more importantly, videos are easy to distribute online: you can embed them on your election website, and they’re perfect for sharing on social media platforms. Either a digital camera or a smart phone).

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Text messaging tool : Election Tools

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A civic engagement toolkit for election officials. A guide for using text messaging to send information to election staff and voters. Text messaging — or SMS (Short Message Service) — is an effective way to reach a large number of people with short pieces of information like updates and notices. You might use texts to provide an important reminder to your poll workers on the morning of Election Day. Or you might use them to communicate key dates or details to a group of voters in your area. Researched an...

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Who won what? : Election Tools

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A civic engagement toolkit for election officials. A simple program to display election results on a tidy, user-friendly website. After the polls close, voters, candidates, and media representatives start flocking to their local election website to find election results. To respond to this need, election officials strive to publish results in a format that’s simple, easy to understand, and that won’t burden their server. This tool makes the whole process easier. Like Notepad (for PC) or TextEdit (for Mac).

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Future Vote Initiative : Election Tools

http://electiontools.org/tool/future-voter-initiative

A civic engagement toolkit for election officials. A year-round program to engage students in elections, as well as their families and teachers. Recruiting young people to be election workers is a real challenge. They often don’t have control over their transportation. Plus, in most cases, they’re not even eligible to vote! Improving the flow of voter traffic at polling places. Increasing voter education and community outreach through family and teacher connections. 1 dedicated staff member. Outreach and...

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Civic icons and images : Election Tools

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A civic engagement toolkit for election officials. Civic icons and images. Visual resources to enhance your website, voter guides, posters, and mailers. This tool is a library of civic images and icons — organized into a variety of collections — that you can use in a diversity of election materials, including your election website, voter guides, and posters. Along with the images are guidelines to help you adapt them to your uses and use them effectively. Basic image viewing and editing platform. The fir...

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Easy polling place reporting : Election Tools

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A civic engagement toolkit for election officials. Easy polling place reporting. A free, web-based spreadsheet to collect election information from every polling place. Publishing results on election night is stressful — candidates want to know if their campaign was successful, journalists want to write a story, and voters like to see if they picked a winner … and they all want to know now! In each polling place. For each polling place. The Center for Technology and Civic Life. Setting up Gmail accounts.

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News : Election Tools

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A civic engagement toolkit for election officials. Publicizing Voter Registration Events in El Paso County, Texas. The El Paso County Elections Department understands that effective community outreach means meeting people both in person and online. To spread the word about voter registration events, they’re using social media as well as materials from the Election Toolkit’s Voter Registration Drive Kit. We like to be involved with our community as much as possible, . Read more. February 14, 2017. Nobody ...

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Accessibility Statement : Election Tools

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A civic engagement toolkit for election officials. We want everyone who visits Election Tools, home of the civic engagement toolkit, to feel welcome and find the experience rewarding, including people with disabilities or those who use assistive technology and preference settings to make the Web easier for them to use. Making the site accessible. To help us make the Election Tools website a positive place for everyone, it is responsive, so it will reformat to fit onto different size screens. We have trie...

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Twitter guide for election officials : Election Tools

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A civic engagement toolkit for election officials. Twitter guide for election officials. A guide for creating year-round content to engage and inform voters using Twitter. Twitter is one of the most well known social media platforms out there, but how can it be used for elections? With these materials and a spirit of fun and adventure, you’ll be able to use Twitter to engage voters and inform the public about the important work that goes on in your election office. For your election office. Twitter is a ...