Topics and Literature Relevant to Executive Order 13639
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Absentee Ballots and Early Voting
- Will Vote-by-Mail Elections Increase Turnout
- Who Converts to Vote-By-Mail Evidence From a Field Experiment
- Voting Early but Not Often
- Voting by Mail and Turnout in Oregon Revisiting Southwell and Burchett
- Political Analysis-2007-Kousser-428-45
- Losing Votes by Mail
- Identifying.the.effect.of.all.mail.elections.on.turnout
- Paul Gronke-Convenience Voting 2008
- An Examination of Efforts to Encourage the Incidence of Early In-Person Voting in Georgia 2008
- Vote-by-Mail – Reform Memo
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Ballot Design
- Better Ballots – Brennan Center
- Field-Guide-Vol-01-20130620
- Field-Guide-Vol-02-20130620
- Field-Guide-Vol-03-20130620
- NIST use of Language in Ballots
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Disability
- Disability and Voting Survey Report for 2012 Elections – Exec. Summary
- Disability and Voting White Paper for Presidential Commission (Schur).docx
- EAC Presentation – Polling Place Accessibility Report 2012
- GAO Testimony by Bovbjerg
- SSQ Article on Disability and Voter Turnout
- Thomas Summary of Disability Recommendations
- Tokaji and Colker 2007 on Absentee Voting
- Wisconsin – GAB – 2013 Accessibility Report
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Limited English Proficiency
- Delivering Political Power to Language Minorities
- English Proficiency and Latino Participation in U.S. Elections
- Language Challenges and Voting – Forbes and Shelly
- MPSA – Translating into Votes
- Public Partcipation in Election Management – The Case of Language Minority Voters
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Long Lines and Wait Times
- ABA 2012 Election Delays Report
- Loyola Law – Fixing That – Lines at the Polling Place – Levitt
- Waiting to Vote in 2012 – Stewart
- Waiting in Line to Vote – Slides – Stewart
- Waiting in Line to Vote – White Paper (Stewart, Ansolabehere)
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Military and Overseas
- 2010 Overseas Voter Satisfaction (Hall_Smith)
- 2008 FVAP Report
- 2010_Military Voting Project (Eversole)
- 2012 FVAP Report
- 2011 House Armed Services Hearing – Military Voting
- Brennan Center – 2009 Registering Military and Overseas Citizens to Vote
- CRS Report on UOCAVA
- CSSC_Inprocessing_Packet_Sample (Fort Hood)
- Department of Defense Instruction Number 1000.04 September 13,2012 Outline (Hartman).docx
- DOD IG Report-Implementation of the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act
- EAC UOCAVA Internet Voting Pilot Requirements
- FVAP 2010 Military Report
- FY10 Accessions by State
- Lessons From Improvements in Military and Overseas Voting
- Heritage Foundation – 2008 America’s Military Voter(Re-enfranchising the Disenfranchised)
- Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment “MOVE” Act
- Military Overseas Voting Key Issues
- Military Postal Service Agency – 2010_After_Action_Report
- Military Voters Disenfranchised_ Record Low 2012 Turnout Expected
- MILITARY VOTING AND THE LAW PROCEDURAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS TO THE BALLOT
- MOVE ACT Summary
- Operation Vote Report
- Overseas Vote and US Vote Foundations – 2012 Post Election Report
- OverseasVoteFoundation – Post 2012 Survey Results – Claire Smith
- Pew 2012 – Progress on Military and Overseas Voting
- Pew Report – Challenges Facing America’s Overseas Military Voters
- ResearchBrief_OverseasVoters_7June2013
- UMOVA Outline
- UOCAVA Analysis – June 2013 – Inbody
- Wieand Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act.docx
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Natural Disasters
- CRS Report on Suspending Elections
- CRS on Hurricane Sandy
- NASS Task Force on Emergency Prepardedness for Elections
- EAC Report on Disaster Preparedness
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Poll Workers
- Advancement_Project – Plight of the Poll Worker
- APSA – Poll Workers and the Vitality of Democracy
- The Recruitment and Training of Poll Workers – Burden and Milyo
- CAStateReport – Poll Worker Survey – Univ. of Berkeley
- CA Report – Poll Workers in the 2006 Election
- EDS-Chapter12-Part 2 – Poll Worker Survey – 2004
- Field-Guide-Vol-04-Effective Poll Worker Materials
- Front Lines of Democracy-Who Staffs Polling Places and Does it Matter (Glaser_Mac Donald 2007)
- Iowa – Poll Workers Guide to Accessibility
- Locomotive to Bullet Train – Street Level Implementation of E-Voting (MacDonald Glaser_2007)
- Missouri 2008 – Poll Worker Guide
- Missouri 2008 – Poll Worker Training
- Poll Worker Pay – Election Data Dispatches
- Poll Worker Training Guidelines – 2006
- Poll Workers Motivation to Serve – 2007 (MacDonald_Glaser)
- Project_Vote_Policy_Brief_9_Elements_of_Successful_Poll_Worker_Training
- University of Utah – Are all Precincts Created Equal
- University of Utah – How Poll Workers Shape Public Confidence in Elections
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Polling Places
- Field-Guide-Vol-08-Guiding Voters Through the Polling Place
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Provisional Ballots
- EAC – Best Practices on Provisional Voting
- Election Law Journal – Helping American Vote
- Election Management Guidelines – Provisional Ballots
- HAVA – Placebo Ballots
- HeinOnline – 10NYUJLegisPubPoly133 – Trapped by Precincts
- OSU – Moritz College of Law – The Promise and Problems of Provisional Voting
- Pew_ProvBallot_Briefing
- Provisional Ballots (Shaw and Hutchings).docx
- Weiser – Are HAVAs Provisional Ballots Working
- WikiLeaks – Overview of Statutes Providing for Provisional Ballot Tabulation
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Voter Education
- Field-Guide-Vol-05-Choosing how to communicate with voters
- Field-Guide-Vol-06-Designing voter education booklets and flyers
- Field-Guide-Vol-07-Designing election department websites
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Voter Rolls and Poll Books
- Registration Systems in American Elections- White Paper (Ansolabehere_Stewart)
- Voter Registration – Jacob Shelly
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Voting Technology
- Argonne NL – 2012 Suggestions for Better Election Security
- Cohen 2006 Auditing Technology for Voting Machines vtp_wp46
- Cohen Auditing Technology 2005
- Election Technology and Voting Experiences in 2008
- Election Technology_CStewart
- EP-2012-Our Broken Election System and How to Repair it – Full Report
- Florida_Residual_Vote_report
- Norden 2010 Voting_Machine_Failures_Online
- Stark 2007 – Conservative Election Audits
- VerifiedVoting – Post-Election Audits
- VerifiedVoting – Voting Equipment
- Voting Machine Capacity and Technology – (Rifkind_Esenberg)
- Voting Technologies -CStewart
- Voting_Machine_Failures_Online
- VSTAAB – Security Analysis of Diebold AccuBasic Interpreter- 2006
- VTP Voting Technology Report
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Materials and Research Submissions
- Voting: What has changed, What Hasn’t, and Why
- Lawyers’ Committee – Recommendations & Case Studies Presented to the Presidential Commission on Election Administration
- State Politics & Policy – Voter Registration in Florida The Effects of House Bill 1355
- Election Law Journal – Souls to the Polls – Early Voting in Florida in Shadow of House Bill 1355
- Advancement Project – Congestion at the Polls
- Poll Worker Resource Guide – Fair Elections Legal Network
- 2014 Interstate Crosscheck 12-9-13
- OVF-UOCAVA_Website_Study_Update_Summary_(6Dec2013)
- RAAV presentation for 6 seminars 2013_2014_Tim Mattice
- RAAV-Seminars-OverView Doug Lewis
- Task Force Final PDF
- THE NVRA at FIFTEEN–A Report to Congress
- Rock the Vote_-_Connected_OVR
- Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) – Report to PEW
- Final Advancement Project & Partners Statement to the PCEA
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Future of California Elections
- FOCE PCEA Final Report
- FOCE.01.Sacramento.County.TOC
- FOCE.02.SOS Memo – Emergency Situations – May Affect Elections – May 2012
- FOCE.03.Counting Votes excerpt
- FOCE.04.Sacramento.Emergency Preparedness
- FOCE.05.SOS uniform-vote-count 2012
- FOCE.06 CaliforniaCommonCause LanguageAccess Recommendations 080413
- FOCE.07 Greenlining.Recommendations
- FOCE.08 ARTICLE ON PLAIN LANGUAGE REV. 5202013
- FOCE.09 sample voter materials_before and after plain language
- FOCE.10 Asian Americans Advancing Justice.national report.aug2013
- FOCE.11 NALEO Memo to PCEA 08-13
- FOCE.12 DRC Barriers and Best Processes Voters with Disabilities
- FOCE.13.Santa Cruz Voters with Disabilities
- FOCE.14 VAAC Guidelines Excerpt
- FOCE.15.Asian Americans Advancing Justice Section 203 handbook Final 02 2010_1
- FOCE.16 Asian Americans Advancing Justice.infographics.aug2013
- FOCE.17 LA County Poll Monitoring Program- FactSheet-2012
- FOCE.18 LA County Election Monitoring Program
- FOCE.19 Santa Cruz Polling Place Accessibility Plan. UPDATE 1-2012
- FOCE.20 State guidelines-final-march-2010
- FOCE.21 State checklist-final-march-2010
- FOCE.22 ACLU of California Voting Rights Final Report
- FOCE.23 Rock The Vote PCEA_Aug8 Remarks
- FOCE.24 CaliforniaCommonCause OVR Recommendations 080413
- FOCE.25 California Voter Foundation PCEA_presentation
- FOCE.26 Santa Cruz Voting by Mail
- FOCE.27 Santa Cruz VBM Instructions
- FOCE.28 Santa Cruz VBM.envelopes
- FOCE.29 Orange County Provisional Ballots
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National Association of Secretaries of State
- CRS-hurricane-impact
- Fact-Sheet-NASS-NVRM-2012
- Final-Elections-Roundtable-Summary-Paper-07142013
- Research-ballot-access-president-092612
- State-laws-polling-place-electioneering-102912
- State-laws-polling-place-watchers-challengers–103012
- Summary-state-absentee-ballots-chart-august-2012
- White-paper-business-id-theft-012612
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National Conference of State Legislatures
- Deadlines for Absentee Ballot-11-20-13
- Early Voting-Nov 2013
- Electronic Ballot Return for UOCAVA Voters FINAL
- Nursing Home Assistance Voting NCSL Dec 13 2013
- Online voter registration
- Polling Place Requirements Dec2013–External
- Pre-Registration
- Restrictions on Schools as Polling Places 2013
- Same Day Registration Nov 2013
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National Council on Disability
- Election Day Picture Guide (sample)
- GAO Testimony to NCD
- NCIL Position Statement on Waiting Lines final
- NCIL Testimony for PCEA_Voting Roundtable_Jim Dickson
- Paraquad_Ten Tips to Improve Accessible Voting
- Roundtable Participants
- SABE_Election Day Checklist Report – Final
- The Arc_Comments to Pres. Comm on Election Admin 7_11_13
- Voting Recommendations
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Commission Documents
- The Presidential Commission on Election Administration Charter [PDF – 40Kb]