Voter Education Toolkit

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]The SABE Voter Education Toolkit is a guide created by leaders in the self advocacy movement to help people teach voter education trainings in their communities. The SABE Voter Education Toolkit includes 8-10 hours of training about registering to vote, voter rights and responsibilities, how to learn about candidates and issues, different ways that people vote, and how to increase partnerships between self-advocacy groups and protection and advocacy organizations.

All of the SABE Voter Education Toolkit and Training Materials are online and you can download and use them in your own training, free of charge.

Voter Education Toolkit Overview

The Voter Education Toolkit is comprised of the components listed below. The most important item is the Facilitator or Trainer Manual which teaches you how to educate people with disabilities about voting. The other components offer further support to improve your training effectiveness and resources you can use in your training, such as PowerPoint slides, handouts and training activities.

2020 PowerPoint Slides

Supplemental Materials

How Do You Vote Handouts and Training Activities
Voting Videos
Tips for a Successful Training
SABE GoVoter Distance Training Plan Form 2021

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What is the most important voting question you would like us to answer today?

How does voting fit into your life?

What are other things you vote on?

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Where can you register to vote?

What makes registering hard?

What are the voting rights in your state?

What are your responsibilities as a voter?

Who would you vote for and why?

What would change your mind and why?

How do you vote in your state?

Where can you vote in person? If your state allows you.

Solutions to Getting around voting problems.

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What are other ways you can get involved in Civic engagement?

Voting Coalition: How can you develop a working group?

SABE GoVoter Distance training plan

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Facilitator or Trainer Manual

This Trainer Manual (8th Edition) features over 90 pages of instruction detailing how to effectively present to and train people with disabilities about all aspects of voting. The manual is divided into 10 chapters with instruction detailing how to present the GoVoter training.

Trainer Manual Topics:

Introduction to the Training
How Did We Get to Where We are in Voting
Registering to Vote
Rights and Responsibilities
Ways to Learn About Candidates and Issues
How Do You Vote?
Ways to Get Around Voting Problems
Civic Engagement: Get Involved with Your Voting Community
Best Practices for Partnering
Evaluating the Training and Getting Feedback

The Trainer Manual is available for download as a PDF, or as a text-only version.

Download the Facilitator/Trainer Manual [PDF]

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PowerPoint Training Slides

The Toolkit also has a PowerPoint presentation to use for the GoVoter Training.

The PowerPoint is a complete presentation you can use in your training. It including participant introductions, voter rights laws, featured topics such as places people can register to vote or cast their ballot, voting responsibilities, how to learn about candidates and issues, role playing, how to vote, using voting machines, how to get around voting problems, and much more.

The PowerPoint allows state training teams to add specific voting rules that their state uses. You can use the PowerPoint training slides exactly as they are when you present, or adapt them to meet your specific needs.

Download the Training Slides [PPT]

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Handouts and Training Activities

You are welcome to use the following handouts and training activities in your GoVoter training.

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Voting Videos

The following are videos you can show in your training sessions. Some of the videos address common problematic situations voters with disabilities may face when trying to vote (e.g. “What would you do in this situation?”) — others are videos from different states.