Community Engagement
Community Engagement is essential for local and state government agencies aiming to build trust, encourage public participation, and ensure that policies reflect residents’ needs and concerns. Governments can foster stronger connections with their communities through outreach programs, public forums, and collaborative decision-making. This directory offers articles on community engagement and related topics like Community Development, which focuses on improving the overall well-being and sustainability of communities through targeted initiatives.
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Salem balances the dark tourism of the 1692 Witch Trials at Halloween with a cathartic approach to teaching and practicing social justice
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Officials in Arizona, Florida and Illinois felt they had done enough to ensure the safety of voters, even as concerns mounted that there will not be enough poll workers in some precincts.
Because of the new health threat, training for census recruits includes advice about hand washing, using sanitizer and other strategies recommended by health officials.
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Moving the polling places may be the right public health move, but it creates challenges for election administrators.
The Athens-Clarke County Board of Elections chose not to use the state’s new — and expensive — touchscreen voting machines, citing concerns about ballot privacy.
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“I think the biggest threat to America’s elections is not letting people vote, and I think we saw a little of that challenge today,” Mayor Quinton Lucas said
In 2016, about four in 10 people reportedly did not vote. Here are some of the reasons why
Some of the most popular ballot-marking machines register votes in bar codes that the human eye cannot decipher; that’s a problem, researchers say
Every Wake County high school has a voter registration coordinator and conducts at least one voter registration drive each year.
“This is probably the best way that we can defend our database,” said Secretary of State Scott Schwab.
All the major platforms — Twitter, Facebook and Google — have announced that they are working directly with the Census Bureau to reduce the amount of census-related misinformation circulating on their platforms.
“They identify an issue that they know that the American people feel passionately about on both sides and then they take both sides and spin them up so they pit us against each other,” FBI Director Christoper Wray said.
Officials were left using photos of hand-written tallies to validate results and ensure accuracy after the new — and untested — mobile app that was supposed to streamline this process failed spectacularly.
While they won’t be employing the same app or vendor used in the Iowa caucus, the Nevada Democratic Party hasn’t ruled out using another app to tabulate results
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