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Presenter:
Dana Chisnell; Independent Researcher; USA
Title:
Democracy is a design problem
Day/Date:
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Time:
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Location:
Gunston
Session Type:
60 minute session
Description:
Every year, thousands of people can’t vote for the people they want in office because of poor design. It is incredibly challenging to make voting easy, clear, and accessible. The design constraints are perverse and often baffling, even to design experts. In this session, Dana will tell the story of how her Kickstarter and the Field Guides To Ensuring Voter Intent actually started with the 2000 election and the infamous “butterfly ballot” that taught the world that design in elections matters.
Audience:
General
Track:
Design
Biography:
Dana E. Chisnell is an elections nerd who has trained thousands of election officials to test the design of their ballots. She’s the lead on a project to develop a series of Field Guides To Ensuring Voter Intent. The Field Guides, funded by a Kickstarter project and the MacArthur Foundation, are designed to be quick, easy, and accessible help for local election officials to do the best possible design.
Through the Accessible Voting Technology Initiative with Drew Davies and Kathryn Summers, Dana developed the Anywhere Ballot, an accessible, responsive, digital ballot template for ballot marking. See it at http://anywhereballot.com
She also conducted a 2-year, in-depth study looking at ballot instructions, where, along with Dr. Janice C. Redish, they established best practices for the use of plain language in ballots. San Francisco's former mayor Gavin Newsom appointed her to the country’s only body chartered with writing clear, objective, and unbiased summaries of ballot measures to be included in Voter Information Pamphlets for each city-county election. In 2007, the AIGA sought Dana's expertise on the research methods behind their ground-breaking Design for Democracy project.
