Electoral administrators

Full guidance
Access our complete guidance in one document, and read a summary of the making your mark project and our recommendations for change.

Making your mark: design guidance for electoral administrators (PDF)

Making your mark: project summary (PDF)

Guidance by section
These are sections of our guidance as separate files, so you can easily download and print the part you need.

Section 1: Introduction (PDF)

Section 2: About this guidance (PDF)

Section 3: General design considerations (PDF)

Section 4A: Ballot papers (PDF)

Section 4B: Polling station notices (PDF)

Section 4C: Polling booth notices (PDF)

Section 4D: Postal voting guidance (PDF)

Section 4E: Postal voting statements (PDF)

Section 4F: Declarations of identity (PDF)

Section 5: Billingual materials (PDF)

Section 6: Detailed guidance (PDF)

Appendix 1 (PDF)

Appendix 2 (PDF)

Example materials
Our example designs show how our guidance can be applied to voter materials within current legislation. You should find these examples helpful when designing your own materials, or when commissioning someone to design them for you.

Example polling station notice English colour A4 (PDF)

Example polling station notice English colour A2 (PDF)

Example polling station notice English greyscale A4 (PDF)

Example polling station notice English greyscale A2 (PDF)

Example polling station notice bilingual colour A4 (PDF)

Example polling station notice bilingual colour A2 (PDF)

Example polling station notice bilingual greyscale A4 (PDF)

Example polling station notice bilingual greyscale A2 (PDF)

Example booth notice English colour A4 (PDF)

Example booth notice English colour A2 (PDF)

Example booth notice English greyscale A2 (PDF)

Example booth notice bilingual colour A4 (PDF)