Report

• The Real Cost of Voter Registration

  Dec 16, 2009 - This landmark case study, conducted by the Pew Center on the States with the assistance of Oregon state and local election officials, is the first publicly available, detailed compilation of state voter registration costs.

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• Bringing Elections into the 21st Century: Voter Registration Modernization

  Aug 31, 2009 - America’s current voter registration system is outdated, costly and inaccurate. A recent study estimates that more than two million voters were unable to cast a ballot in the 2008 general election due to registration problems.

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• No Time to Vote: Challenges Facing America’s Overseas Military Voters

  Jan 06, 2009 - No Time to Vote: Challenges Facing America’s Overseas Military Voters shows that 25 states and the District of Columbia have to improve their absentee voting process for their military citizens abroad.

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• Data for Democracy – Improving Elections through Metrics and Measurement

  Dec 03, 2008 - The Pew Center on the States’ Make Voting Work initiative assembled a broad set of stakeholders with the expertise to comment on the importance and challenges of prioritizing, collecting and applying elections data to provide and improve information for the public on election performance and management.

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• Being Online is Not Enough: State Elections Web Sites

  Oct 16, 2008 - A 50-state analysis released by Make Voting Work, a project of the Pew Center on the States, examined the usability of states' election Web sites and found that voters cannot easily locate information online.

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• Summary: Military and Overseas Citizen Voting Project

  Sep 15, 2008 - This summary highlights the challenges facing military and overseas citizens voters and offers solutions.

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• Make Voting Work: The First Pilot Projects (Spring 2008 Trust Magazine briefing)

  Apr 30, 2008 - Make Voting Work approaches its work thoroughly schooled in the Pew Center on the States' strategy of moving issues forward based on nonpartisan, rock-solid data and information.

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• Overseas Voting (Fall 2007 Trust Magazine briefing)

  Dec 03, 2007 - Pew partners with Overseas Vote Foundation to launch Web-based services aimed at overseas voters.

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• The Help America Vote Act at 5

  Nov 29, 2007 - HAVA represented a dramatic shift in the relationship between the federal government and its state and local counterparts in the area of election reform — namely the promise of nearly $4 billion in federal funds tied to a series of federal requirements, all to be enforced by a new federal agency.

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• Overseas Voting – Challenges and Innovation

  Oct 25, 2007 - Military service members and other overseas voters face hurdles to casting ballots.

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• Make Voting Work: Request for Proposals

  Apr 23, 2007 - The Pew Center on the States, a division of The Pew Charitable Trusts, and the JEHT Foundation issued a request for proposals for $2 million in grants available to help diagnose how well U.S. elections are run and plan pilot projects to be conducted in 2007 and 2008.

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• Election Preview 2006: What's Changed, What Hasn't and Why

  Oct 24, 2006 - Report finds the November 7, 2006 election has the possibility—if not certainty—of problems at polls nationwide.

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• Election Reform Briefing: Translating the Vote--The Impact of the Language Minority Provision of the Voting Rights Act

  Oct 13, 2006 - electionline.org briefing finds that non-English speaking voters continue to face barriers at the polls despite federal protections.

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• Election Reform Briefing: Holding Form--Voter Registration 2006

  Jul 19, 2006 - As millions return to the polls for the Fall 2006 elections, electionline.org’s latest briefing finds that the process of voter registration remains largely unchanged.

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• What's Changed, What Hasn't and Why: Election Reform 2000-2006

  Feb 07, 2006 - Electionline.org's 2006 annual report about the state of election reform in the U.S.

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• Election Reform Briefing: Recounts--From Punch Cards to Paper Trails

  Oct 06, 2005 - Electionline.org reports on voter-verifiable paper trails and electronic voting machines.

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• Election Reform Briefing: Solution or Problem? Provisional Ballots in 2004

  Mar 17, 2005 - Electionline.org reports on the use of provisional balloting in '04 elections.

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• Election Reform Briefing: Margin of Victory Covered Many Faults, But Did Not Diminish Problems

  Dec 17, 2004 - Report on status of election reform as it related to the 2004 U.S. election.

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• Election Reform Briefing: The Business of Elections

  Aug 11, 2004 - Electionline.org reports on the political activities of voting machine companies.

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• Election Reform Briefing: Securing the Vote--Can Americans Trust the Voting Machines?

  Apr 30, 2004 - Electionline.org reports on voting security, the most controversial aspect of election reform since the passage of the Help America Vote Act.

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• What’s Changed, What Hasn’t and Why: Election Reform 2004

  Jan 22, 2004 - Report from electionline.org finds many of the election problems revealed in Florida and elsewhere during the 2000 presidential election have not yet been solved.

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