Election Initiatives commissions and oversees research, projects, and case studies aimed at helping states improve their elections systems. Because effective elections systems are fundamental to our nation’s democracy, we work with election officials, policy makers, researchers, technology experts, businesses, and other stakeholders in the election process to help guide our research and test our recommendations.
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Political Minorities and Perception of Privacy
Data from the 2008 Cooperative Congressional Election Study show that among individuals concerned about privacy when casting ballots, those in the political minority had greater concerns about voting confidentiality.
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Data in South Carolina Answers Questions about Deceased Voters on the Rolls
New data in South Carolina provide insight into whether voters flagged as potentially deceased on the state’s rolls had ballots cast in their names.
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Democracy From Afar
Since 2010, 47 states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws that greatly improved the ability of Americans abroad to vote and have their votes counted.
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Democracy From Afar
Four key reforms that states and the District of Columbia have implemented to help military and overseas voters cast timely ballots.
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Vote-by-Mail: A Moneymaker for the Postal Service?
A national election conducted solely by mail would not significantly increase revenue for the U.S. Postal Service, according to a recent study from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
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Primaries Dispatch: Thousands of Military and Overseas Ballots Already Cast in Upcoming Elections
With primaries fast approaching, election officials in South Carolina, Florida, and Missouri have been busy sending ballots to military and overseas voters, as required by the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) and in accordance with the federal Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act of 2009.
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St. Louis Makes Progress Reducing Duplicate Voter Registrations
As of late June 2011, the City of St. Louis had significantly decreased the number of potential duplicate voter registrations on its rolls, according to the Missouri State Auditor. An auditor’s report released in December 2011 found 2,400 duplicates, down from more
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Cost Savings from All-Mail Balloting
A recent study found that if all Colorado counties conducted elections solely by mail in 2010 they would have reduced costs by $1.05 per registered voter.
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Economies of Scale in Election Expenditures
Recent studies in California and Colorado have found that less populous counties have higher costs per registered voter.
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Removing Voters from the Rolls, Part Two
A few weeks ago, we looked at how most voters removed from the rolls in Washington, D.C., in 2008–2010 were removed because of their death. Nationally, however, inactivity is the most common reason voters are removed from
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