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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;font-weight:normal">If you are looking to start the semester with a propitious (and potentially inspiring) example of technical communication in action, consider the Center for Civic Design’s newest field guide,
<i>Designing Vote at Home Envelopes and Materials,</i> at <a href="https://civicdesign.org/fieldguides/104-designing-vote-at-home-envelopes/">
https://civicdesign.org/fieldguides/104-designing-vote-at-home-envelopes/</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;font-weight:normal">This illustrated guide for election officials covers<span style="background:white"> the information design choices and practical decisions involved in creating mail-in ballots for the 2020 elections.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">The Center for Civic Design offers a series of field guides at
<a href="https://civicdesign.org/fieldguides/">https://civicdesign.org/fieldguides/</a> that might be pertinent to your classes: for example,
<i>Designing Usable Ballots, Writing Instructions Voters Understand, </i>and<i> Testing Ballots for Usability.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">This material could also be paired with readings from the 2018 special issue of
<i>Technical Communication</i> (65.4) on election technologies, which was guest edited by Godwin Agboka and Isidore Dorpenyo. In addition to the introduction by the guest editors, “</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black;font-weight:normal">Election
Technologies, Technical Communication, and Civic Engagement” (pp. 349-353), <span style="background:white">
this issue offers the following articles:<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Fernando Sánchez, “</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Racial Gerrymandering and Geographic Information Systems: Subverting the 2011 Texas District Map with Election Technologies<span class="apple-converted-space">” (pp. 354-370)</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Natasha N. Jones and Miriam F. Williams, </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">“Technologies of Disenfranchisement: Literacy Tests and Black Voters in the US from 1890 to 1965” (pp. 371-386) [NOTE: Recipient of the
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">2020 CCCC Award <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">for Best Article Reporting Historical Research or Textual Studies in Technical and Scientific Communication.]<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Jennifer Sano-Franchini<span class="apple-converted-space">, “</span>Designing Outrage, Programming Discord: A Critical Interface Analysis
of Facebook as a Campaign Technology<span class="apple-converted-space">” (pp. 387-410)</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Jim Nugent, “Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Ballots: Technical Communication and Trust in Electoral Systems” (pp. 411-422)</span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Matthew Bridgewa<span class="apple-converted-space">ter, “</span>Ethos in Electoral Technology Company Web Spaces<span class="apple-converted-space">” (pp. 422-431)</span></span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sam Dragga<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Emeritus, Texas Tech University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Editor,
<i>Technical Communication</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">sam.dragga@ttu.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">1-806-543-6099<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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