Archive for 2013

The Kansas state agency with access to proof-of-citizenship documents for would-be voters is finally making them available to election officials – another reminder of the need to consider implementation when making election policy changes.

Pew’s latest Election Data Dispatch highlights the potential costs to jurisdictions in the wake of proposals to establish two-track registration systems. It’s a different take on an important issue that figures to gets lots of attention in the months to come.

About eight months after a phantom-ballot scheme was uncovered in Miami-Dade, a campaign staffer is sentenced for his role … but the potential threat of future attacks means that election officials must continue to raise their game.

A new effort in Virginia to identify and remove ineligible voters is illuminating the different risk tolerances between those who worry about the potential for fraud and those who are concerned about the potential for disenfranchisement.

A new poll by USA TODAY and the Bipartisan Policy Center reveals that the current partisan divide in many state legislatures on election policy is present among voters as well.

Nebraska’s Secretary of State is proposing to require ID from voters who file address changes with the post office but don’t notify election officials. That proposal is drawing criticism from legislators content with continuing the “all or nothing” ID debate.

Legislators in both parties in Minnesota have questions about the Secretary of State’s recent online voter registration launch, which was accomplished without legislation – but what they decide to do about it could revive the state’s recent partisan election wars.

The after-effects of Wisconsin’s eventful 2012 election cycle remain, as a series of relatively minor election law changes recently sparked a renewal of the state’s fierce partisan battles.

Two programs to compare state voter lists are gaining currency and will undoubtedly have an impact on the election community – not to mention individual voters – nationwide.

Two upstate New York counties have entered into an arrangement to share printing costs in an effort to save money and utilize excess capacity.