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A Training Guide for Polling Place Officials
“A Training Guide for Polling Place Officials” is a guide made available by the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics in 1996 which outlines training and procedures for the Polling Place Team during the November 1996 General Presidential Elections in the USA. Examples of official ballots are provided.
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Accessible Facilities: How to Make Voting More Accessible
“Accessible Facilities: How to Make Voting more Accessible” is a guide from 1996, available in a French and English copy, meant to help election officials make the polling sites more accessible to handicapped voters so they may vote in the upcoming Federal Elections. The document, published by Elections Canada, gives advice on how to make the sites more accessible by setting up ramps, special parking and adapted doors and entrances. The document includes diagrams.
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Ahora Si! El 17 de noviembre elegi autoridades honestas y capaces para tu municipo
“Now Yes! On November 17, Elect Honest and Capable Authorities for your Municipality” is a civic education poster, available in Spanish, issued in 1996 by the “Decidamos” group in Paraguay, in lead up to the 1996 Paraguayan Municipal Elections. The poster is meant to motivate people to vote and it instructs them on the voting procedures.
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An Overview of the Easy Reader Voter Guide
This pamphlet summarizes the “Easy Reader Voter Guide,” which provides a non-partisan breakdown of state wide races and ballot measures in hopes of facilitating voters’ decision making. The guide provides a description of California’s eight political parties as well as statements and photographs of 1996’s presidential candidates. The guide was used by business leaders, senior groups, civil organizations and “County Voter Registrars.” “Easy Reader Voter Guide” was published in 1996 during the lead up to that year’s November 5 local elections and presidential election between incumbent Democrat Bill Clinton and Republican Nominee Bob Dole.
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Ballot Box Clerk
“Ballot Box Clerk” is a guide from 1996 believed to be published by the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics which gives a set of instructions to the Ballot Box Clerk to be followed on Election Day for the USA’s Presidential Election in 1996. Instructions include how to open the ballot box, ballot casting and how to seal the ballot box.
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Ballot Clerk
“Ballot Clerk” is a guide from 1996 believed to be published by the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics which gives detailed instructions to the Ballot Clerk to be followed on Election Day for the USA’s Presidential Election in 1996. Instructions include topics such as issuing ballots, ballot accounting and processing spoiled ballots.
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Ballot Return Envelope
This is a ballot return envelope sample from Montgomery County, Maryland complete with measurement and ink requirements and mailing instructions for the year 1996.
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Ballot Transmission Envelope
This is a ballot transmission envelope sample complete with measurement and ink requirements for the year 1996.
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Civic Education and Democracy Towards Free and Fair Elections 1996 and Beyond
“Civic Education and Democracy Towards Free and Fair Elections 1996 and Beyond” is a booklet that was published in 1996 during the lead up to of the Ugandan Presidential elections. The literature was intended to educate the Ugandan people on their civic responsibilities and human rights. The booklet also contains chapters that examine the economic, political, and constitutional orders of Uganda as well as the electoral process of the country.