Category Archives: election administration

“Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Releases State Election Law Resource Easily Searchable Tables on Voter Registration, Absentee Balloting, In-Person Voting and More”

election administration
Release: Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights published an online resource that allows users to easily search information about every state’s election procedures.  Complicated state level procedures for voting are often confusing and difficult to navigate in the best… Continue reading

“The Simplest Way to Avoid a Wisconsin-Style Fiasco on Election Day; If voters don’t get absentee ballots on time, states can offer an easy-access write-in ballot—an option that already exists for Americans overseas.”

absentee ballots, election administration
Ned Foley and Steve Huefner for Politico: While states are required by federal law to accept FWABs from military and overseas voters, a version of the FWAB does not yet exist for domestic voters—essentially because the need for it previously… Continue reading

Important New Report as Mail-In Voting Ramps Up for November: “Signature Verification and Mail Ballots: Guaranteeing Access While Preserving Integrity”

absentee ballots, election administration
Great report out of the Stanford Law School Law and Policy Lab, which looks in depth at how California counties handle signature verification on absentee ballot envelopes and how they notify voters about rejected ballots. This kind of detail really… Continue reading