NIST, ITL, Marking and Verifying Ballots Collection - Recruitment Email

NIST – Marking and Verifying Ballots Before Casting: Requirements for Usability and Accessibility

Email – for pre-scheduled sessions where participants will be asked to travel to a specific location at an appointment time

Help us make it easier to mark your ballot.

The Center for Civic Design is working on a project to explore voters’ experiences with casting their ballots in an election. We want to know how you mark and review your votes before casting your ballot and what makes this process usable and accessible for you.

We will be conducting interviews with eligible people and observing how you use a voting machine. Individual sessions will be approximately 60 minutes long. The interviews will be on [date] in [city], near [general location]. 

You must be a U.S. citizen, a registered voter and at least 18-years-old to participate in the study. 

If you want to volunteer to be in the study, reply to this email [email address] with your 

- Full name 

- Phone number (include the area code)

- When the best time is to contact you 

Tell your friends! 

We are *not* working for any political campaigns. This research is sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology

The information you provide will be used only for the purposes of this study. 

If you qualify for the study, someone will contact you by email or phone to ask you some background questions. We will accept the first [# at this location] people who qualify for the study.

Note: To qualify, you must answer all of our questions truthfully. You must be able to have a conversation in English. 

If you are selected, we will send you a confirmation of your appointment time and place and will call you to remind you. You will be paid $75.00 in cash for your participation and travel costs to come to the study location.

Signs – for “walk-in” sessions where people already at a location will be able to sign up, but will not have to travel to a different location.

Come give your feedback!

The Center for Civic Design is working on a project to explore voters’ experiences with casting their ballots in an election. We want to know how you mark and review your votes before casting your ballot and what makes this process usable and accessible for you. You will try out a voting machine and talk to us about our experience. This will take approximately 60 minutes.

We need input from everyone in the community, especially if you use the accessible voting systems.

[time, date

location information]

Sign up to participate [information about where sign-up sheet is available]

You will be paid $50.00 in cash for your participation.

The Center for Civic Design (civicdesign.org) is assisting NIST, a federal agency, with this project. Center for Civic Design are a nonpartisan nonprofit that works with election advocates and government officials to make it easier for everyone to vote. For more information, contact hello@civicdesign.org or [name and contact of someone at the location]

Collection Instrument for Marking and Verifying Ballots Before Casting: Requirements for Usability and Accessibility
Center for Civic Design - Contract GS-06F-0942Z / Order #333ND18FNB770325