Post Election Resources

How might we prepare to support campus stakeholders in processing and responding to a tumultuous post-election season? This is the question that over one hundred stakeholders, including Ask Every Student campuses, in the student voting space came together to ideate solutions around. These resources include a Post-Election Campus Resource and Response Guide that directly synthesizes the ideas from these stakeholders, shareable graphics and webpage, and a recording of the Post-Election Resource Webinar.

How to make the 2020 election go as smoothly as possible

Post Election Campus Resource and Response Guide

On October 8, over 100 stakeholders in the student voting space came together to ideate around the question “How might we prepare to support campus stakeholders in processing and responding to a tumultuous post-election season?” This document is a synthesis of their ideas for how best to address that challenge. We’ve provided helpful resources that can support you and your community in enacting these ideas.

We’ve posted this again in the document, but the Civic Alliance Post Election Day and Election Day Guide is an exceptional resource for creating messaging before, during and after election day. While this is a resource specifically crafted for the business community, the messages outlined in their Guide transcend sectors.

This is a live document and will be updated with more resources over time.

You can also view the Post Election Resources Webinar that expands on this guide and select resources through the recording and link-filled agenda.

Shareable Social Media Graphics

HOW TO MAKE THE 2020 ELECTION GO AS SMOOTHLY AS POSSIBLE
How states count votes
Be patient and listen to election officials
Democracy take time.
What you can do to track your own ballot
You can take action to help make this election secure and fair!
 

Shareable Webpage

This simple page uses clickable links to easily redirect viewers to take actionable steps to help make the post-election period go as smoothly as possible.

Shareable webpage screenshot.
 

Post Election Resources Webinar

On Thursday, October 22, the SLSV Coalition’s Resource and Support Working Group and the Ask Every Student program hosted a webinar to share resources and best practices to prepare campus stakeholders and student voting nonprofits to plan for a post-election period. The webinar will be framed by the above Post-Election Campus Resource and Response Guide. 

Webinar Presenters:

James Madison University’s Post-Election Response Plan (Carah Ong Whaley, Associate Director, JMU Civic)

IDHE Resources on Facilitating Political Discussions and Discussing Democracy in Supercharged Political Times (Nancy Thomas, Director, Institute for Democracy & Higher Education)

Civic Alliance Post Election Day and Election Day Guide (Anjelica Smith, Corporate Partnerships Manager, Democracy Works)

Stay Calm, Count On (Dan Xie, Political Director, Student PIRGs)