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The State of Elections In The Fifty States: Evaluating the Process Where It Counts (PDF)
This report reviews the election process across all fifty states, using the Carter-Baker Commission’s recommendations as guidelines. It reviews progress on voter registration, voter identification and provisional voting, voting technology, voter access and education, and election management.

Read the report here.
Featured Resources
A Right to Vote: Modernizing Voter Registration | OCTOBER 2009
Tova Andrea Wang, Demos
Tova Andrea Wang makes the case for modernizing voter registration practices in the states, in the context of the upcoming gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia. Both states have large percentages of recently naturalized and first generation Americans.
Registering Low-Income Voters through Public Assistance Agencies in Missouri (PDF) | JULY 2009
Project Vote
This study highlights the recent success in Missouri of voter registration in public assistance agencies from August 2008 through May 2009, which is mandated in the 1993 National Voter Registration Act. Missouri registered over 112,000 new voters in one year through public assistance agencies.
Documenting Disenfranchisement: Voter Identification at Indiana's 2008 General Election | SEPTEMBER 2009
Michael J. Pitts & Matthew D. Neumann, Indiana University of Law- Indianapolis
This research examines the effect of Indiana’s photo identification requirement on counting provisional ballots in the 2008 general elections.
League of Women Voters of Indiana, Inc. v. Todd Rokita, Indiana Secretary of State (PDF) | SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
Marion Superior Court, Civil Division
The opinion in the case of League of Women Voters of Indiana, Inc. v. Todd Rokita, Indiana Secretary of State.
Automatic Registration in the United States: The Selective Service Example (PDF) | JULY 2009
Laura Seago, The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
A case study on the registration process employed by Selective Service officials provides insight into how government agencies can collaborate to create accurate voter registration files.
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Research Projects
Center for Democracy & Election Management
Center for Democracy & Election Management was established at the School of Public Affairs at American University in 2002. Their broader goal is to pave the way for and strengthen democracy through improved electoral performance.
Early Voting Information Center
Reed College
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.
Brennan Center for Justice
NYU School of Law
The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law is a non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on fundamental issues of democracy and justice.
FairVote
FairVote develops and promotes practical strategies to improve elections at the local, state and national levels.
electionline.org
The Pew Center on the States
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.
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