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Election Management Guidelines
The Election Management Guidelines and the Quick Start guides were created to assist state and local election officials effectively manage and administer elections. These guidelines complement the voluntary voting system guidelines' technical standards for voting equipment. For more information about these guides or to request copies, contact EAC at 866-747-1471. NOTE: These resources are available at no cost.
Election Management Guidelines
- Certification, System Security, and Physical Security
- Acceptance Testing New
- Uniformed and Overseas Citizens New
- Pre-election and Parallel Testing New
- Developing an Audit Trail New
- Contingency Planning and Change Management New
- Ballot Building New
- Absentee Voting and Vote by Mail New
- Polling Place and Vote Center Management New
Quick Start Guides
- Central Count Optical Scan Ballots New
- Uniformed and Overseas Voters
- Developing an Audit Trail
- Polling Places and Vote Centers
- Managing Change in an Election Office
- Media and Public Relations
- Contingency and Disaster Planning
- Absentee Voting and Vote by Mail
- Acceptance Testing
- Voting System Certification ( August 2007 )
- Voting System Security
- Poll Workers
- Ballot Preparation/Printing and Pre-Election Testing
- New Voting Systems
- EAC Letter to Election Officials on Quick Start Guides
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