Early and Absentee Voting

Overseas Voters: Defining and Solving the Problems
Despite continued efforts to improve their voting experience, military voters and other eligible Americans living overseas continue to encounter challenges when they try to cast their ballots. The Committee on House Administration recently explored this issue; while a new report tackles the basic, yet complicated, question of how many such voters exist.
Featured Resources
Casting a ballot remains persistently difficult for overseas military voters. In this analysis, the Election Reform Project’s Jessica Leval proposes ways to make voting easier for this particular population, including simplifying the process and incorporating the Internet into procedures.
Election officials investigate controversial administration issues in the 2004 election and suggest reforms in voter registration, early, absentee, and provisional balloting, voting technology, and election administration
This analysis examines a number of issues related to voter confidence, its determinants, and what steps election administrators might take to help increase it.
Research Projects
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.
Upcoming Events
May 07, 2009 - May 09, 2009
The University of Iowa recently hosted a conference exploring reform proposals on a range of election-related topics, including technology, registrati
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