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Accessibility Map
A polling station map that shows which station can be easily accessed by people in wheelchairs and also shows with which voting mechanisms a station is equipped. Creating awareness and giving information on billboards, sport events, malls, lobbies.
Voting with a Touch (w/ Poken devise)
Traditionally surveys are paper-based during an event. Even an electronic-based system represents a challenge for the organizer. NFC (Near Field Communication) technology allows to establish communication with a "touch" for smart-phones and alike.
Voting Cubes
What if we filled cubes like the one outside Apple's flagship NYC store with thousands of balls at every voting poll?
Remote voting system on airplanes
A remote voting system on airplanes that is more accessible for people who are traveling on voting day.
"Yes it was cool and I was there"
Voting is about trust and evidence. I propose a tangible artifact augmented by reliable technology with a digital infrastructure redundancy. This idea is about evidence from the mail that can be read with hands and eyes to the secured ballot box.
Streamlined Absentee Voting
Absentee voting is often a huge hassle, this is a simple concept for a web-based system that may ease some of the confusion related to absentee voting.
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Developing games or simulations to help children understand the needs of personas
Using games and simulations to help children understand what it's like being a persona, how to help that persona live and vote, as well as what that persona's voting interests may be.
The Universal Polling Place
Polling places are "found spaces" re-used for voting. This makes it difficult to provide similar access everywhere. This concept suggests a longer-term project to research and prototype an ideal universal polling place
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iVote
The use of tablets provides voters a more accessible and enjoyable voting experience.
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Color-Coded Voting
With the use of community shuttle buses and color coding, there is less confusion in the voting process in terms of where to go and how to get there.
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Urban Voting
Anyone who lives in an area with public transportation will receive free public transportation ovn Election Day to a simpler kiosk
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Fingerprinting Voting
Fingerprinting, a clear method of identification, can be applied to voting by having each person cast their votes through dipping their fingers into different colors and marking them on a sheet of paper.
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Democracy for everyone -- Plan how to make Accesible voting stations for multiple disabilities
pre-inscription to know wich people have disabilities that prevents him normal voting and give him an special code to acess multimedia applications for handicap people. then create special booths to allow them to vote.
Participation in voting among people with disabilities demands that design solutions address how social needs and dependencies are incorporated into different ways of being “independent.”
Considering In/dependence
Participation in voting among people with disabilities demands that design solutions address how social needs and dependencies are incorporated into different ways of being “independent.”
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Democracy Kit Envelope
A pre-paid democracy envelope kit inspired by Netflix that includes all necessary things to register, vote and then mail the envelope with no cost.
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RE-Design a place that encourages voting
Now the voting experience might change and people use online sites or remote devices. But if a person chose to visit an actual location for various reasons, shouldn't that space be redesigned to accommodate the need for these people to visit again.
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Forewarned is Forearmed
We want to build a website that allows all people (but especially those with disabilities) to know more about their polling locations. It crowdsources info about accessibility, specific issues and how many people will be voting (and when).
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Modular Voting Device working over Cell Phone Networks
A reusable Device which uses Cell Phone Networks to record a voters choice from any location. Phones are not involved, just the network The design is modular allowing for different attachments which can aid people with their different disabilities
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Reach Out to Children of Immigrants
School-age children in immigrant families often act as translators and interpreters for their parents for a range of issues. How can we reach out to them to let them know the election resources available to them and their parents?
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Bus Ticket (size) Ballot
If casting a ballot could be as easy as validating a bus ticket it would make taking the voting machine to the voter physically easier. A completed ballot only needs to have the voters choices on it, not all the possible options on the blank ballot.
Year-round voting center - stores equipped with voting kiosks
My idea is targeting to the group who couldn't vote on the Election Day. By installing voting kiosks at stores and having store managers as poll workers, we might be able to provide year-round voting services.