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Election Reform Newsletter, Issue #83

Election Reform Newsletter

October 7, 2009

On Topic: Voter Registration

Accurate Voter Rolls: Policies and Research

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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A Right to Vote: Modernizing Voter Registration

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. Read more »


Letter on Indiana's Voter ID Laws (PDF)

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. Read more »

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)

MORE ON ELECTION REFORM

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