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The resources below are designed to help election officials plan for and provide in-person voting options, whether for early voting or on election day.
Please refer to our main Clearinghouse Resources page for more best practices, tools, and guidance on other topics.
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Visit Clearinghouse Resources on Poll Workers or Poll Worker Resources for Election Officials to find additional resources.
In-person Voting Resources
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Election Worker Training: Managing Challenging Interactions
Short video training to help election workers manage challenging interactions, developed by the EAC and the American Psychological Association.
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Chapter 14: Voting Location Management
Chapter 14 of the 2nd edition of the Election Management Guidelines, published in 2023, covers the planning, preparation, and management of in-person voting at voting locations.
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Chapter 15: Provisional Ballots
Chapter 15 of the 2nd edition of the Election Management Guidelines, published in 2023, covers the preparation, training, implementation, and tracking of provisional ballots.
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Election Day Preparation for New Election Officials
Part of the 2024 Presidential Election Readiness series, this video features election officials discussing how to prepare for early voting and Election Day tasks in a Presidential Election.
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Election Day Preparation Checklist
Best practices and other resources about preparing for election day operations, including award-winning strategies from election offices across the country.
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Quick Start Guide: Provisional Ballots
Quick reference designed to familiarize local election officials with provisional ballots and give a broad idea of factors that should be considered when administering this failsafe mechanism.
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Polling Place Line Alleviation Simulations
Video series intended to help election officials develop strategies for alleviating long lines at polling places, using simulations to model the impact of different mitigations.
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Quick Start Guide: Poll Watchers
Quick reference designed to familiarize local election officials with best practices for managing observers or poll watchers.
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Polling Place Consolidation Simulations
Video series to help election officials develop strategies for polling place consolidation, using simulations to model different ways of serving multiple precincts in a single voting location.
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Best Practices: Provisional Voting
Resource discusses the history and scope of provisional ballots, and provides best practices around communication, training, and election day procedures relating to provisional ballots.
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Polling Place Process Change Simulations
Video series designed to help election officials understand the impact changes to voting equipment will have on their polling places, using simulations to model the effects.
Additional Resources
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