The Electoral Trust will develop and publish policies, rules and procedures for the scheduling and conduct of elections. As part of this publication, the Electoral Trust may delineate special procedures for addressing in open meetings, not behind closed doors emergency or time-sensitive situations in its scheduling of elections.

Voting for an initiative will be held open continuously throughout a time period specified by the Electoral Trust for an initiative election. During this period, voters will be able to vote twenty-four hours a day using any of several methods (e.g., in-person at a kiosk, mail, telephone, Internet, etc.) The Electoral Trust will certify and announce the results of the initiative election at the conclusion of the specified period. The flexibility for voting provided by the Democracy Act is a dramatic improvement over the situation that presently exists in most states, in which voters must appear at a specified polling place during a specified time interval on a single day.

Voting will be made as simple, as convenient, and as efficient as possible for the voter. Citizens should not have to sacrifice time with their families or their work in order to vote. People who are homebound, people who do not have a permanent mailing address, and people who are unable to read, among others, should not be prevented from voting by virtue of their status. Thus the Electoral Trust will provide many alternative vehicles through which, and many venues at which, people may choose to vote at no cost to themselves. For example, voting by mail, in person or through the Internet will all be accommodated, and in the case, for example, of vote-by-mail, the Electoral Trust will provide postage-paid envelopes (or equivalent) for the voters' use in submitting their ballots.