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Fun activity for this weekend? Early voting!

Usually my weekend activities at this time of year revolve around gardening, starting to design Notchcode's holiday card (and holiday cards for my clients. Clients: need a holiday card? It's probably time to get started!). But since it's an election year, and I live in Colorado, I'll be filling out my state's four page mail-in ballot.


Four pages? Yes sir! We've got all sorts of amendments, referenda, and county, district, state, and national candidates to vote on. It's Colorado's longest ballot in 96 years. I suspect I will not be alone in voting for the amendment which makes it harder to get amendment questions onto the ballot, since we are all pretty tired of having every little thing written into the state constitution, rather than being enacted as a law. Some may call me short-sighted, and unamerican. Whatever; I just want to take less time to actually fill in my ballot than I do filling out my tax returns.

I want to take this democracy-reated moment to remind you all about the AIGA's project to make ballots easier to understand, process, and be counted for everyone. I have written about it twice, here and here. check it out, and follow the links there to the site with the sample ballot designs. It's very cool, and if you are in a position to recommend changes to your local ballot's design, your fellow citizens would thank you if you helped to implement some of the changes shown here.

Labels: graphic design, information graphics, politics

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