This simple UI fix made verifying early voting signatures faster in Arizona

To cut down on the time it takes to verify signatures for early ballots, election officials in Arizona’s largest county made a simple UI change. All it took was less scrolling. When people in Maricopa County vote early, they sign green affidavit envelopes that are scanned into a county system; election officials then compare that signature with the voter’s signature on file. The county uses an an enterprise-built, custom system designed in-house to do the comparisons digitally, but the previous…