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Content Tagged ‘plain language’

Post: Ballot questions are hard to understand. Here are 6 ways to fix them.

Post: If a legal right is not readable, is it really a right?

Post: Attention-grabbing style: typography to grab (and hold) your reader’s attention

Post: 3 strategies to improve vote-by-mail signature forms

Post: An invitation to redistricting

Field Guides: Designing vote by mail envelopes

Post: How can we make requirements clear?

Post: A month of presentations

Example: Instructions on vote-by-mail ballots build confidence in Arapahoe County

Post: Writing election information that everyone can read

Example: A Voter Bill of Rights in plain language for California

Example: Helping voters get the right primary election ballot in California

Post: Less can be more in official notices

Field Guides: Writing instructions voters understand

Post: Listening to voters

Example: Absentee ballot instructions in Minnesota

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