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Election Reform Newsletter, Issue #86

Election Reform Newsletter

November 18, 2009

On Topic: Election Administration

Alternative and Uncounted Ballots: Surveying the 2008 Election

The U.S. Election Assistance Commission recently released the results of its Election Administration and Voting Survey, providing nationwide as well as state-level reports of how Americans cast their votes. Significant among the results is the increasing percentage of voters who cast their ballot in alternative ways and the number of ballots uncounted in the initial unofficial election returns.
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A Common Data Format for Electronic Voting Systems

A two-day workshop, concluding on October 30, 2009, sought to decide upon a common data format for voting systems. Setting the requirements for a common data format will encourage transparency, interoperability, integration, and eventually assist in the transition to an electronic system of record keeping. Read more »


Modernizing Ohio's System for Registering Voters: Automatic and Online Registration

For Ohio, with an outdated and inefficient registration process, modernizing its voter registration system is a priority. This preliminary report suggests that Ohio implement an automatic registration process, building off of pre-existing records in government databases for citizens who don't decline registration. Read more »

New Resources

EARLY AND ABSENTEE VOTING


NASS Summary of the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act National Association of Secretaries of State (October 2009)

Statement in Support of the MOVE Act Senator Charles E. Schumer (October 2009)

TECHNOLOGY ISSUES


E-Voting and Identity VoteID 2009 (October 2009)


ELECTION ADMINISTRATION


Maintenance of State Voter Registration Lists National Association of Secretaries of State (September 2009)

Improving State Voter Registration Databases Committee on State Voter Registration Databases, National Research Council (October 2009)

MORE ON ELECTION REFORM

» Voter Registration
» Voter Access
» Early and Absentee Voting
» Provisional Balloting
» Technology Issues
» Election Administration
» Voting Integrity
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