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Election Reform Newsletter, Issue #83
Election Reform Newsletter
AEI | The Brookings Institution.
October 7, 2009
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On Topic: Voter Registration
Making sense of the debate over voter registration reform requires comparisons of state-level policies on maintaining updated voter lists and an increased understanding of the current research on this topic. The first report, published by Project Vote, surveys the academic literature on implementation of the NVRA and the second, compiled by the NASS, summarizes each state's procedures for voter registration list maintenance.
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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.
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This letter, from the Indiana Secretary of State, was written the day after the Indiana Court of Appeals handed down its decision on the state's voter ID laws. It outlines the impact of the ruling on State laws and the Secretary's plan to argue his case in front of the Indiana Supreme Court.
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New Resources
ELECTION ADMINISTRATION
Electoral Laws and Turnout: 1972-2008 (PDF)
Jan Leighley (Pew Center on the States) & Jonathan Nagler (NYU- Wilf Family Department of Politics) (August 2009)
Election Enhancements for Ohio (PDF)
Office of the Ohio Secretary of State (August 2009)
TECHNOLOGY ISSUES
Internet Voting: Formulating Structural Governance Principles for Elections Cybersecurity
Candace Hoke (Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law) (September 2009)
VOTING INTEGRITY
Documenting Disenfranchisement: Voter Identification at Indiana's 2008 General Election
Michael J. Pitts & Matthew D. Neumann
Indiana University of Law- Indianapolis (September 2009)
League of Women Voters of Indiana, Inc. v. Todd Rokita, Indiana Secretary of State
Marion Superior Court, Civil Division (September 2009)
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