Help make counting votes a quieter process
Engineering for Democracy Institute studying how to work safely with loud machines
The Books & Ballots team encourages election officials and election office staff to take a short anonymous survey to study how election staff and poll workers handle working in noisy environments around machines used to process mail ballots. See the flyer below for details or go to https://uri.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4JyIGTIk3sXnRPM.
The survey is from past Books & Ballots speakers at the Engineering for Democracy Institute at the University of Rhode Island, led by Professor Gretchen Macht. All survey responses are anonymous. The survey is part of a project to identify simple and effective ways to make election administration safer and healthier. The EDI team presented an earlier part of this research on safely working around noisy mail ballot processing machines in a Books & Ballots session last year:
You may also remember the practical and helpful tools developed by EDI’s team of engineering researchers specifically for election administrators. A Books & Ballots session (link below) earlier this year highlighted practical applications including VoteTime.app to estimate voter wait times, VBMTime.app to project vote-by-mail processing workloads, BallotStorage.app to calculate warehouse space and storage costs, and VoteLayout.app to design polling place layouts.
Remember to register for this month’s Books & Ballots on Wednesday, May 20 at 2 p.m. ET for a practical discussion about the people side of election administration:
