In my mind, Exhibits A and B for keeping (and strengthening) the federal Election Assistance Commission arrived this morning.

Draft data from the 2012 Election Administration and Voting Survey — our best national source of data to date about the state of elections in the country — is up at the EAC site.

And the EAC also released its biennial (2011-2012) report under the NVRA, with substantial amounts of data on voter registration.

(h/t, as always, to Doug Chapin)