Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Editors’ Introduction
- Part I Bush v. Gore in Perspective
- Part II What Has Changed since Bush v. Gore?
- Part III Remaining Challenges
- 8 The Evolution (or Not) of Ballot Design Ten Years after Bush v. Gore
- 9 Poll Workers and Polling Places
- 10 Resolving Voter Registration Problems
- 11 Felon Disenfranchisement after Bush v. Gore
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
10 - Resolving Voter Registration Problems
Making Registration Easier, Less Costly, and More Accurate
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Editors’ Introduction
- Part I Bush v. Gore in Perspective
- Part II What Has Changed since Bush v. Gore?
- Part III Remaining Challenges
- 8 The Evolution (or Not) of Ballot Design Ten Years after Bush v. Gore
- 9 Poll Workers and Polling Places
- 10 Resolving Voter Registration Problems
- 11 Felon Disenfranchisement after Bush v. Gore
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
Summary
Introduction
The practice of voter registration has a long history in the United States. In 1800, Massachusetts was the first state to impose a voter registration requirement. By Reconstruction, a handful of states used voter registration, typically in urban areas, as a tool to prevent multiple voting. By early in the twentieth century, most states required voter registration.
In recent decades, there have been many initiatives to make voter registration easier and more convenient for voters. At the federal level, the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA, 1993) and the Help America Vote Act (HAVA, 2002) both sought to ease the registration process for eligible voters. For example, NVRA made the registration process available in government agencies and by mail and HAVA required that most states develop statewide computerized voter lists, among other reforms. At the same time, many states shortened preelection registration deadlines, allowed for election day voter registration, and worked in other ways to make the registration process easier.
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- Election Administration in the United StatesThe State of Reform after Bush v. Gore, pp. 186 - 198Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014
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