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Posted by Keith Campbell October 3, 2008 at 6:24 p.m.

See your Ballot...right now.

The LJ World is going to write about this soon:but you can now see a sample of your ballot.You can see a sample of the ballot that you will vote for this General Election. Go to [www.douglascountyelections.com][1] In the middle of the page you will find a voter search. After you enter in your personal information you be redirected to a new page that will list your address, party affiliation, representative information, polling location, map to your polling location and a link to a .pdf of your ballot.For those who are interested our ballot was designed using the best practices set forth by Design for Democracy an organizations according to their website that" applies design tools and thinking to increase civic participation by making interactions between the U.S. government and its citizens more understandable, efficient and trustworthy. Independent, pragmatic and committed to the public good, Design for Democracy collaborates with researchers, designers and policy-makers in service of public sector clients and AIGA's goal of "demonstrating the value of design by doing valuable things." You can read more about Design for Democracy [here.][2] Or you can go to Amazon an purchase your very own Design for Democracy book. I get asked why we don't print a ballot in the LJ World. The answer is that because Douglas County's representative districts, school districts etc are so fractured, and because the number of polling places (67) we have a lot of different ballot faces. In this election we have over 80 ballot styles. In August we had over 250. [1]: http://www.douglascountyelections.com [2]: http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/design-for-democracy