Election Administration-Protection

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Immigrant civic engagement is an increasingly critical issue for the United States. Immigrant civic engagement may take various forms, but naturalization, voting registration and voter turnout are key measures or benchmarks.

This report examines immigrant civic participation in terms of immigrants’ current engagement, the capacity of states to provide naturalization and voting registration, and the impact that immigrants are having on the adult citizen population in theU.S.read more >>

In May, 2010, election officials in Santa Clara County, California became the first in the country to accept voter registration forms that were signed by hand and submitted electronically using mobile, touchscreen technology. This development has the potential to revolutionize voter registration in the United States, where reliance on paper registration processes is costly, error-prone, and time-consuming.read more >>

U.S. citizens are increasingly mobile: 12.5% of households move every year. Movers include college students, job seekers, members of the military, and foreclosure victims. Some of our most mobile citizenry – young people – are also the very people we need to encourage to register in greater numbers. Yet many of the basic rules governing our voting processes have not modernized along with our electorate. The practices highlighted below can help states meet the needs of today’s mobile voters.read more >>

From the standpoint of voter access and effective administration, the 2010 elections were in many ways a mixed bag. There were a number of troubling incidents that occurred including voter intimidation and threats of vote suppression, and the structural barriers to voting that keep participation rates down were as apparent as ever. Yet at the same time it was clear that much of the worst that might have happened was avoided.read more >>

Failed voting machines, frustrated voters and lost votes: these have been a constant in news reports following every recent major election cycle. The voting systems used in the United States today are complicated machines; each runs on tens of thousands of lines of software code. As with automobiles and airplanes, automatic garage door openers and lawnmowers, occasional malfunctions are inevitable – even after rigorous product testing.read more >>