Absentee Ballots and Early Voting

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Who Converts to Vote-By-Mail Evidence From a Field Experiment
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Advocates of mail ballot elections predict that voting by mail will produce higher turnout and allow voters to become more informed. Our study tests these predictions by taking advantage of a “natural experiment” in which many California voters are assigned to vote by mail because they live in less populous precincts. By matching these mail ballot precincts with traditional polling place precincts that contain voters with similar demographic characteristics, we are able to observe the effects of voting by mail on comparable groups of voters taking part in the same elections.

Ballot Design

Disability

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The purpose of this report by the Government Accountability Board (“Board” or “G.A.B.”) is to describe impediments to voting encountered by elderly voters and voters with disabilities who seek to participate in elections conducted in the State of Wisconsin. This biennial report to the Legislature is required by §5.25(4)(d), Wisconsin Statutes. The concept for this report originated as one of several recommendations made by the Legislative Council’s Special Committee to Review the Election Process. The Special Committee was established in 1998. This recommendation, along with several other

Limited English Proficiency

Long Lines and Wait Times

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PDF slides of Presentation: Waiting in Line to Vote by Charles Stewart

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Waiting in Line to Vote

Charles Stewart III Stephen Ansolabehere

July 28, 2013

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Waiting to Vote in 2012 – Stewart

Military and Overseas

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The Military Postal Service Agency conducted an end of year analysis of the Military Postal System’s absentee ballot handling procedures and performance during the 2010 General Election. This assessment identifies methods utilized to ensure compliance with the FY 2010 National Defense Authorization Act, Subtitle H - Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act (MOVE). 

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A detailed look at how voters and election officials fared in the 2012 general election and what to do about it.
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Research Brief and Recommendations on Military and Overseas Voting

Prepared for the Presidential Commission on Election Administration June 7, 2013

A.     Number of UOCAVA Voters

Civilians Overseas: The U.S. Census Bureau only includes “U.S. military and federal civilian employees” in their reports. In 2010, this number was 1,042,523. In July 1999, the Bureau of Consular Affairs at the State Department estimated that 3,784,693 private American citizens lived overseas. In 2009, the general number of 5,256,600 was released.

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Introduction

The principal problem in serving overseas citizens and military voters is how best to return a marked ballot to local election officials. Prior to 2009, insufficient time was provided for an overseas voter's ballot to be delivered and make it back in time to be counted. While the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) of 1986 required all states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories to permit U.S.

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Outline of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act

Natural Disasters

Poll Workers

Polling Places

Provisional Ballots

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Provisional balloting was one of the centerpieces of the election reform package Congress passed in response to the widespread problems reported in the 2000 presidential election.1 In 2000, millions of eligible voters were turned away from the polls because administrative errors caused their names to be omitted from the registration rolls.2 The Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project estimated that 1.5 million rejected votes of eligible voters could have been saved by use of provisional ballots.3 The National Commission on Election Reform, chaired by former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carte
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This report provides a summary of state statutes providing for the tabulation of provisional ballots.1 The first section contains summaries of District of Columbia and state provisional voting tabulation statutes, organized in alphabetical order; the second section contains summaries of five state statutes providing for election-day registration (also known as “same-day registration”), organized in alphabetical order; and the third section contains a summary of one state statute providing that voter registration is not a requirement for voting.

Voter Education

Voter Rolls and Poll Books

resolutions page - advisory board, Statements & Resolutions, Voting Technology

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EAC Board of Advisors Resolution on Standards

Voting Technology

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This paper discusses major considerations election officials should ponder before determining the extent to which their future election or voting system implements a predominantly COTS inclusive approach.
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Executive Summary

In this report, we examine how voting technologies and election administration in the United States have changed—or have not changed—since the controversial 2000 presidential election. We present our research and analyses of the past 12 years, as well as the perspectives of a number of individuals prominent in the election administration, voting technology, and election advocacy communities. 

resolutions page - standards board, Statements & Resolutions, Voting Technology

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EAC Standards Board Resolutions on Standards

Study, Voting Technology

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Election Operations Assessment: Threat Trees and Matrices and Threat Instance Risk Analyzer (TIRA)
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Elections Operations Assessment Summarization
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Elections Operations Assessment Phase I Report

Report, Voting Technology

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EVEREST Report
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VVSG Ad Hoc Committee Report_SB

Correspondence - Testing and Certification, Voting Technology

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Letter to EAC from TGDC

Letter, Voting Technology

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NIST Response to Resolutions Adopted by EAC Boards

Quick Start Guides, Voting Technology

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Provides information about policies and procedures that election officials might consider when implementing a new voting system. Topics include confirming delivery of equipment and supplies, conducting a mock election to evaluate performance, providing community outreach to increase public awareness of new equipment, training poll workers, programming the new systems, and providing for the security of equipment within Election Day procedures.

Materials and Research Submissions

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Future of California Elections

National Association of Secretaries of State

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National Conference of State Legislatures

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National Council on Disability

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Best Practices and Recommendations for Ensuring Voting Access for People with Disabilities

 

National Council on Disability, Quick Tips

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Ten Suggested Practices to Improve Accessible Voting

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