The document summarizes an election training approach used in Johnson County, Kansas that involves creating "personas", or archetypes of voter scenarios election workers may encounter. It describes creating a humorous video starring a comedian portraying the various personas to help workers feel more prepared. The personas depicted voter scenarios involving issues with new photo ID requirements. Feedback indicates the approach improved worker confidence and professionalism in handling exceptions. The county hopes sharing their approach will help other jurisdictions with training.
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1. 28th Annual
National Conference
Boston, MA
2012 Professional Practices Program
Training With Personas
Johnson County, Kansas
Submitted by:
Brian D. Newby
Election Commissioner
2101 East Kansas City Rd
Olathe, KS 66061
913-782-3441
Brian.Newby@jocogov.org
www.jocoelection.org
2. Training with Personas
Election worker training has become an exercise in preparing for the exceptions.
95 percent of voters have a very similar voting experience. We call them Perfect Voters
because everything goes the way it is intended. Voters are in the poll book, they are provided
the correct ballot, cast it without incident, and receive an тАЬI VotedтАЭ sticker upon leaving the
polling place.
The handling of the other five percent impacts the perception of the election with voters, the
media, candidates and elected officials, and even election workers. The more confident election
workers are with procedures for the exceptions, the more likely they are to excel on election
day, return as experienced workers in later elections, and join us in our goal of sustained
excellence in election administration.
That preparation starts with understanding that elections involve people. Voters are people. A
voter can sometimes be nameless and faceless when discussing training procedures, but the
more we view voters as unique individuals, the more likely we are to achieve excellence with
the exceptions.
Our latest discussions with our workers stem from a new law change in 2012 involving Photo
Identification at the polls. Our workers are generally supportive of the law, but apprehensive
about their role. Particularly, they are concerned about complying with the new law, types of
ID allowed, and the procedures to follow if the ID is not valid or does not appear to meet the
legal requirements.
They also are apprehensive about interacting with vocal supporters or protestors of the new law
at the polling place.
Our training approach in 2012 confronts the apprehension directly and through humor. Our
immediate impression objective is to demonstrate to our workers that we have thought through
exceptions they will face on election day.
We did this by creating personas (people archetypes) representing scenarios that workers may
see at the polls. These personas were defined as individual people and then once their scenarios
were considered, we created humorous caricatures of the personas.
We enlisted a comedian who utilizes several characters in his work and matched the personas to
his characters. We then created a video script around those personas.
We were able to leverage relationships to produce a video at a greatly reduced cost; we used
actual election workers in the video.
Our comedian played all of the voter personas. He appears as himself at one point just for context.
3. We greet our workers at training with the video as an icebreaker to kick off the training. Then,
we reinforce the video during the training presentation by bringing back slides of the persona
characters and a discussion of the scenario and the proper procedure.
Our personas include
тАв a voter who intentionally doesn't come with ID,
тАв a voter who comes with the wrong ID,
тАв a voter who doesn't look like his photo,
тАв a voter who comes in only with the voter registration card,
тАв a voter who wants to discuss the new law with an election worker,
тАв a voter who believes his ID is valid and doesn't want to come back and wait in line,
тАв a familiar face who is surprised he still is asked for ID, and
тАв a voter who goes by several names.
The video is hosted by a British hipster and has a news segment opening and closing. We use
the closing to reinforce our desired end-state: тАЬThese election workers are quite well-trained,
remarkably sincere, and they demonstrate the utmost professionalismтАжtheyтАЩre absolute rock
stars.тАЭ
A big challenge in creating the video was timing, particularly because we needed to write,
shoot, and edit the video over the period of November 2011 through January 2012 while
procedures were being developed and finalized. We didnтАЩt want the video to be outdated with
adjusted procedures as we used it, beginning in February 2012 and through November 2012.
We also prepared the video so it could be utilized by any of the other 104 counties in Kansas.
Shot in Johnson County, we kept the script at the тАЬKansasтАЭ level to maximize its versatility.
We showed the video at the Kansas County Clerks and Election Officials annual conference in
May, and many counties have expressed plans to utilize the video in their training as well. The
approach can be further emulated by others using just the presentation slides.
Supplemental materials include screen shots of the slides we utilize related to some of the
characters, as well as the primary directive we have with all of thisтАФborrowing a line from Star
Wars to тАЬStay on target!тАЭ We want our workers focused on the procedures and not veering off-
script.
WeтАЩve augmented this approach with an iPad sent to each polling place that contains all of this
training information and several sample photos of identifications that can be used at the polls.
Our outcome in our three early elections in 2012 has been what we hopedтАФelection worker
confidence in dealing with the scenarios, as well as complete professionalism even when
encountering a couple of the real-life versions of these personas.
We will further use this approach in August and November and will post a link to the video on
our тАЬFor Election WorkersтАЭ tab of our website beginning in July.
4. Training With Personas Video Link (also included on CD): Johnson County (Kan.)
Election Office
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Slides below and on following page relate to the persona discussion during training
Supporting Documents 1 of 2
5. Training With Personas Johnson County (Kan.)
Video Link (also included on CD): Election Office
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Supporting Documents 2 of 2