Healthy Elections

Still from an instructional video for the Healthy Elections project.

In early May of 2020 the Prototyping Systems Lab teamed up with a team from the d.school at Stanford University and the Stanford-MIT Healthy Voting Project to use human-centered design and systems thinking to contribute to protecting voter participation in the Fall 2020 election. Amidst a global health pandemic, the d.school is focusing on how to reduce the health risks and stress associated with voting. The project is being carried out in partnership with Stanford Law Professor Nathaniel Persily and his co-leadership of the Stanford-MIT Project on Healthy Elections. The research team is working with a range of partners who have been heavily involved in improving the voting experience from a design, implementation, and experience standpoint at the state and county level.  

This nine-month project will run through the November 2020 elections, with the goal of exploring ways that human centered design can be deployed to make the elections safer and easier for voters and election administrators, with the hope of ensuring as many people are able to vote as possible during the upcoming November 2020 elections.

View the project site: http://healthypolls.stanford.edu