Government policy-makers

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 government policy-makers (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: Bilingual materials (PDF)

Section 6: Detailed guidance (PDF)

Appendix (PDF)

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