Election Admin SuiteProcess Guide Maker

Make a guide to your election process

Show voters and observers how an election is run in your jurisdiction, step by step, with the U.S. Election Assistance Commission's own words and pictures. Fill in your details once and get a pocket guide, a poster and a sign for each room's door, ready to print. New here? Read the getting-started guide.

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"Copy for the next election" keeps everything you typed and keeps this guide as it was, then takes you to the election date to change.

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1 Your office Description (for your saved list)

Office name

Short name for the cover

Website

Election date (optional)

State How people vote in person

At their own polling place At any vote center Only at the elections office (everyone else votes by mail)

Every voter is mailed a ballot Voters need an excuse to vote by mail There is early in-person voting In-person ballots are scanned where people vote

These pick the EAC's wording for steps 3 to 7, so the guide says what really happens in your jurisdiction.

Logo for printing (optional)

Print a QR code that opens your website

2 Your details

Fill in what applies. Anything left empty prints the EAC's general wording.

Where ballots are brought and counted How often unofficial results are posted Who reviews the results (the canvass) Months paper ballots are kept

Federal law requires at least 22 months.

3 Your steps

The EAC's 12 steps, in order. Turn off a step you don't do, move one, or change its words. Leave a step's words empty to use the EAC's.

Show law citations

Type your own state law citation in a step if you want one printed under it. Turn this off to print none.

4 Observers Where the canvass happens When it happens Livestream address (optional) Who may observe in your state

Rules for observers, one per line

Rules for observers in Spanish

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Light ink prints well on any office printer. Heavy ink fills the signs in black, for a print shop.

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