print email comment close How Design Can Save Democracy URL: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/25/opinion/20080825-ballot.html Description: "Earlier this year [2008], the United States Election Assistance Commission distributed guidelines [for ballots] created by professional designers to 6,000 local election officials. ... This interactive feature identifies common design problems found on optical-scan ballots from previous presidential elections and shows ways to improve clarity and vote accuracy based on the commission’s new guidelines." Presented by two member of the AIGA (formerly the American Institute of Graphic Arts). From The New York Times. Author: Grefé, Richard; Hewitt, Jessica Friedman Publisher: The New York Times Extra Keywords grefe LII Database Information: Record 26878 created by Maria Brandt on 09/09/2008 Last modification on 09/15/2008 Published: 09/24/2008   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26878