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Absentee Ballot Day Tool Kit

This guide provides everything you need to host your own Absentee Ballot Registration Day.

Absentee Ballot Day Tool Kit

On September 25, 2018, American University Library, with partners from AU Student Government, AU’s Office of Development and Alumni Relations and the DC League of Women Voters, held its inaugural Absentee Ballot Registration Day.  This event helped 1,005 AU students apply for an absentee ballot.  

This Guide will give you everything you need to do to host a similar event.  

Absentee Ballot Day:  Table of Contents

Author:  Gwendolyn Reece – greece@american.edu.  Image files are created by Erica Bethel.

License:  All of the text files authored by Gwendolyn Reece are provided on a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.  Those that are covered have the CC logo by them.  The image files, created by Erica Bethel, are NOT included in this license.

FILES ARE LINKED BELOW

  1.  Absentee Ballot Day Tool Kit: Introduction  Creative Commons License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
  2. Absentee Ballot Day:  How It Really Looked  Creative Commons License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
  3. Major Planning Decision Points  Creative Commons License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Planning Documentation--to be modified and used

  1. Absentee Ballot Day Planning  Creative Commons License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
  2. To-Do Checklist  Creative Commons License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
  3. Budget  Creative Commons License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Operational Documents – to be modified and used

  1.  Partner Invitation  Creative Commons License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
  2. Absentee Ballot Day Volunteer Information  Creative Commons License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Graphic Files –creator is Erica Bethel, Marketing and Design Coordinator

  1.  Absentee Ballot Registration Day Flyer (inspiration for promotion)
  2. Addressing Envelope Poster
  3. I Registered Absentee stickers