VTP Ballot Design Research

Current Ballot Design
- Absentee Ballot, City of Pasadena and Pasadena Unified School District Primary Election, March 6, 2007
Ballot Research

Melanie Goodrich's 19th Century Ballots from California from the Huntington Library's Political Ephemera Collection -- examples of the first printed ballots used in America in the early 1800s
19th Century Ballot Reform in California: A Study of the Huntington Library's Political Ephemera Collection by Melanie Goodrich
Ted Selker's research on how to improve ballot design: Orienting Graphical User Interfaces Reduce Errors: The Low Error Voting Interface

Ballot Design Prototypes by Ted Selker with Jon Goler, Bruce DiBello, Shawn Sullivan, Elizabeth Herbert

Modern Ballots

Official ballots from 2008
- Uruguay
Official ballots from various regions in India (2005)
- Dhanaha
- Bagha
- Ramnagar
Official sample ballots for the City of Los Angeles for the General Municipal and Consolidated Elections, May 17, 2005
- Official sample ballot for the Good Shephard Care Center, Sunset Living Room/Red Table
- Another official sample ballot
Official ballots for the City of Pasadena and Pasadena Unified School District
- Ballot for PUSD primary, March 8, 2005
- PUSD general election, April 19, 2005:

Official Ballot for the General Election for the City of New York, County of Kings, November 2, 2004

Official sample ballot for Orange County for the Statewide Governor Recall Election, October 7, 2003

Interesting samples of punchcard ballots from Ohio: the front of ballot and the back of the ballot

Demonstration ballot for the Democratic Primary and Non-Partisan Judicial, Nassau County, FL, September 8, 1994: the front of the ballot and the back of the ballot