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In-Person Voting

• Innovative Practices and New Solutions Guide:
This document is one in a series created as part of the Election Infrastructure Government
Coordinating Council and Subsector Coordinating Council’s Joint COVID Working Group. These
documents provide guidance for state, local, tribal, and territorial election officials on how to
administer and secure election infrastructure in light of the COVID-19 epidemic.
• Finding Voting Locations and Poll Workers
• Considerations for Modifying the Scale of In-Person Voting
• Health and Safety at the Polling Place

• Safeguarding Staff and Work Environment from COVID-19
Voting By Mail/Absentee Voting

• The Importance of Accurate Voter Data When Expanding Absentee or Mail Ballot Voting
• Election Education and Outreach for Increased Absentee or Mail Voting
• Electronic Ballot Delivery and Marking
• Helping Voters to Request a Mail-in Ballot
• Managing an Increase in Outbound Ballots

• Inbound Ballot Process
• Ballot Drop Box
• Signature Verification and Cure Process
• Vote By Mail/ Absentee Voting Timeline
The EAC has also developed Vendor and manufacturer guidance on cleaning voting machines and
other election technology. State specific resources have been developed by many of the states such as
Arizona, North Carolina, Ohio , North Carolina and South Carolina etc.

Voting for US primaries in some of the States

• Alaska: The Alaska Democratic Party canceled all in-person voting for the presidential primary
and instead allowed mail voting. The party extended the deadline to receive ballots to April
10 from March 24, and made voter registration documents and ranked-choice paper ballots
available for download from its website.

• Arizona: The state held its presidential primary election, for the Democratic Party only, on March
17. Maricopa County, the most populous county in the State, closed 80 polling locations due to
logistics issues. Voters were free to vote at any of the county’s remaining 151 polling locations,
not just the location nearest to their residence. Despite the challenges, voter turnout for day-of
voting was higher than that for the 2016 Democratic primary election.

An Arizona voter holds a sticker showing he voted in the
Democratic Primary election at the Burton Barr Central
Library in Phoenix on March 17