Investigating Voting Rights in Colorado: An Assessment of Compliance with the National Voter Registration Act in Public Assistance Agencies (PDF)
As the first election since 1952 without an incumbent president or vice-president as a candidate, the number of new registrations for this November’s presidential contest is expected to be very high. A new report from Project Vote uses Colorado as a case study to explore a process designed to ease registration for low-income citizens—making forms available at public assistance agencies—and finds that the state has made some progress recently but that room for improvement still exists.

Read the report here (PDF).
Featured Resources
This resource, framed around ten general issue areas, examines which states are likely to experience different election administration problems in November.
The EPC’s preliminary analysis of complaints registered in the Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS) during the 2004 presidential election reveals problems in registration processing, absentee balloting, machine errors, voter suppression or intimidation, and provisional ballots
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Election Law @ Moritz, run through Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University, contains both explanation and commentary on a wealth of election reform issues from a legal perspective.
This project aims to evaluate the current state of reliability and uniformity of U.S. voting systems; to establish uniform attributes and quantitative guidelines for performance and reliability of voting systems; and to propose specific uniform guidelines and requirements for reliable voting systems
Electionline.org provides daily news updates on election reform issues, as well as deeper analysis of selected topics, including recent reports on voter registration, recount procedures, and the progress in implementing the Help America Vote Act since 2002.
Directed by early voting scholar Paul Gronke and housed at Reed College, the Early Voting Information Center provides news and research on and a state-by-state overview of early voting issues.
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