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Touch Screen Ballots In Need of Re-Design
Poor ballot design on touch screen voting systems, which look very
much like ATM machines, can lead to voter error and frequent requests
by voters for assistance, according to a usability study released
in January 2008.
The five-year study of voter experiences led by the University of
Maryland and funded in part by a grant from Carnegie Corporation
of New York concludes that tremendous improvement in voters’
abilities to cast their votes accurately and without assistance
can be accomplished simply by improving the way ballots are laid
out on touch screen and paper-based systems. Read
the press release.
Despite the ballot design problems, the study says voters generally
were satisfied with the systems’ usability and confident that
their votes would be accurately cast.
Carnegie Corporation supports non-profit organizations engaged in
research and advocacy to promote increased voting and civic participation
by all Americans with a particular focus on young people and immigrants.
Read more about Carnegie Corporation’s civil
participation and civic integration work.
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